Louisville coroner says deaths of woman in garbage truck accident, man in city jail still under review

Last month, two deaths caught the city’s attention.

First was Tyrah Adams, the 35-year-old woman who died after city sanitation workers picked her up using the hydraulic claw of a garbage truck as they cleaned an alley, where she was lying among debris. Two weeks later, Juan Miguel Munoz Penalver, a 21-year-old man, died while in custody at the Louisville Metro jail.

In the days after their deaths, city officials offered condolences and said police would investigate…

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