In a lawsuit filed against the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, the son of a couple in The Villages claims that he was seriously injured and left in a coma after his pancreas was ruptured by a deputy who forcibly kneeled on his back and “impaled his abdomen on a sprinkler head that was underneath him.”
Sean Sheehan filed the lawsuit against MCSO in the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court of Marion County in January 2024. In that initial filing, Sheehan made a claim for losses suffered from injuries he allegedly sustained during an arrest nearly two years prior.
Sheehan is currently serving time with the Florida Department of Corrections and is imprisoned at the minimum security Santa Rosa Work Camp. He is due for release in 2026…