ATLANTA (WANF/Gray News) – The family of a man killed during the clearing out of a homeless encampment in Atlanta has filed a civil lawsuit against the city, according to the attorneys representing them.
Cornelius Taylor, 46, was unhoused and living on the streets of the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood when he was hit by an Atlanta Public Works truck plowing through a homeless encampment on Old Wheat Street on Jan. 16. He was taken to the hospital by ambulance, where he later died, according to a police report.
Attorneys with Davis Bozeman Law, which is representing Taylor’s family, say the 46-year-old was still inside the tent he was living in when the bulldozer leveled it, causing “fractures of the pelvis…lacerations to vital organs…and extensive internal” bleeding.
The Fulton County medical examiner ruled that Taylor’s death was caused by blunt force injuries to his abdomen and pelvis. His manner of death was ruled an accident…