Michael Dooling Jr.
Michael Dooling Jr. was a 42-year-old painter. He was booked into the Henry County Jail in Georgia in 2010 and died of a heart attack about a month later, his parents said in a federal lawsuit against the sheriff's office and CorrectHealth. The lawsuit says he had survived an earlier heart attack and stroke, had told staff that a doctor recommended a pacemaker, and that the jail's medical provider failed to provide needed surgery and his full medications. A judge dismissed the suit, finding the parents had not shown enough evidence of a constitutional violation.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness (disputed; neglect alleged). The parents' federal lawsuit against the sheriff's office and CorrectHealth says jail medical staff failed to provide needed surgery and his full medications before he died of a heart attack, while the official account attributes the death to a heart attack.
Reported by: his parents, in a federal lawsuit against the sheriff's office and CorrectHealth (family or their lawyers); federal court.
Lawsuit: His parents sued the Henry County Sheriff's Office and CorrectHealth over his death, and a judge dismissed the suit without any payment.