MetroHealth has hired well-known Cleveland defense attorney Ian Friedman to help the hospital navigate the criminal investigation into the death of a woman inside her hospital room on May 5, 2025.
The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Tasha Grant’s death a homicide and said the 39-year-old double leg amputee died as a result of “physical restraint in the setting of congestive heart failure.”
Body camera video showed MetroHealth police officers and a Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s deputy restrained Grant against her bed and handcuffed Grant about 15 minutes before she was found unresponsive.
‘I can’t breathe’: Body-cam video released of amputee who died in county custody
Police officers wrote in reports that Grant was frustrated about her pain and medication and threw herself on the floor and then threatened nurses and staff…