Mesa County, health contractor to pay $2 million after 27-year-old dies of epileptic seizures in jail

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The family of a 27-year-old man with severe mental disabilities who died while experiencing epileptic seizures in the Mesa County jail settled a lawsuit for $2 million, their attorney announced Monday.

Tomas Beauford and his mother, Tiffany Marsh

Jail staff failed to medicate Beauford, confiscated a bracelet that helped him manage seizures and did not intervene in a series of seizures he experienced the night he died, according to the lawsuit. Beauford had a severe developmental disability that meant he operated with the mental capacity of a 6-year-old, according to the lawsuit.

 

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