A family says they their loved one was left in the Cook County Morgue for six weeks because his name was misspelled.
“My son did not deserve to be lying in that morgue,” Ruthie McKinnie said. “I mean, it’s so disrespectful.”
McKinnie and her family are furious with the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office and Chicago police because her son, Kelvin Davis, was in the morgue for six weeks and they had no idea.
The family said they started calling the medical examiner’s office weeks after Davis went missing.
“I gave description that he’s very tall, 6’4″ with freckles, very distinctive looking,” sister Deborah Smith said. “She said, ‘We don’t have anyone by that name here.'”
So they filed a missing person’s report with police.
“Thank god he had a tattoo of “love mom” in bold black letters on his arm and if not, I never ever would have found my baby boy,” McKinnie said.
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Police alerted the medical examiner, and they realized Davis’ body had been there the whole time. The problem was Kelvin Davis had been entered into the medical examiner’s system as Kevin Davis.