Evan Terhune
Evan Terhune, a 2018 graduate of Castle High School, worked at Kenny Kent Chevrolet. On November 14, 2020, Evansville police took him into custody at a home on Loft Cove Road after a disturbance linked to LSD use. Police said he injured his head against a patrol car and the walls of a transport vehicle, and his family's lawsuit says officers failed to keep him safe during a ride to the hospital in an unrestrained multi-passenger police vehicle, where a CT scan showed a massive subdural hematoma. He died three days later, on November 17, 2020.
Cause of death, as reported: Died in an accident (disputed; neglect alleged). Police say he injured his head against a patrol car and transport vehicle walls, but his family's lawsuit says officers failed to protect him, including by leaving him unrestrained in a multi-passenger police vehicle on the way to a hospital.
Reported by: Evansville Police Department (the agency that held him); his family's lawsuit (Wagner Reese law firm) (family or their lawyers).
Lawsuit: His parents filed a lawsuit alleging that Evansville officers failed to protect him during a police vehicle ride to a hospital, where he was later found to have a massive subdural hematoma and died three days after his arrest.