SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – The city of Southfield has agreed to pay $3.25 million to settle a lawsuit with the mother of Timesha Beauchamp, who was wrongly declared dead by paramedics in 2020.
The settlement comes more than five and a half years after the incident that drew national attention when Beauchamp, who lived with cerebral palsy, was discovered alive at a funeral home hours after being pronounced dead by Southfield EMS.
“It’s mostly relief that this long process has finally resulted in justice for her family,” said Steven Hurbis, attorney for Erica Lattimore, Beauchamp’s mother…