Somer Nunnally
Somer Nunnally, 21, died of an overdose in May 2015 while held in a Missouri county jail where Cory Hutcheson was jail administrator. A wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of her two children says surveillance video shows a jailer laughed at her several times during her time in the jail. The lawsuit also says she cried out for medical help about an hour before she died.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose (disputed; neglect alleged). Her children's wrongful death lawsuit says she died of an overdose and that surveillance video shows a jailer laughed at her several times and ignored her cries for medical help about an hour before she died.
Reported by: wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of her two children.
Lawsuit: Her two children sued over her death in 2015 in Missouri, alleging a jailer laughed at her and that she cried out for medical help before she died, and the reporting does not say how the suit was resolved.