Larry Gene McCollum
Not found on the Texas Attorney General’s published list of deaths in custody.
Larry Gene McCollum, 58, was held at the Hutchins State Jail in Dallas, Texas. His daughter Stephanie Kingrey said he would have been coming home that week, and his children said he had been relatively healthy despite hypertension and being overweight. An autopsy attributed his death to heat stroke, and his body temperature was reported above 109 degrees when he reached the hospital, six days after he collapsed at the jail on July 22, 2011. In June 2012 his family and the Texas Civil Rights Project filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Texas prison officials, who declined to comment because the case is pending.
Cause of death, as reported: Died from neglect by staff. The autopsy attributed his death to heat stroke from a hot environment, and his family and the Texas Civil Rights Project's wrongful death lawsuit say staff failed to protect him from the heat.
Reported by: autopsy; his family and the Texas Civil Rights Project (wrongful death lawsuit) (family or their lawyers).
Lawsuit: His family and the Texas Civil Rights Project filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Texas prison officials in June 2012, and the case was pending at the time of reporting.