CHARLESTON, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge has approved a $270,000 settlement of a wrongful-death lawsuit that alleged jailers in southeastern Missouri didn’t offer proper medical care for a woman during an overdose.
The Southeast Missourian reports that under the settlement, the city of Charleston will pay $75,000 and Mississippi County will pay $195,000 for the death of 21-year-old Mississippi County Detention Center inmate Somer Nunnally.
Nunnally’s family said surveillance video shows a jailer laughing at Nunnally several times and ignoring her cries for medical help before she died.
