INDIANAPOLIS — The family of John Durm, a Marion County deputy who was strangled to death by an inmate during an escape attempt two years ago, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Eskenazi Hospital and Cintas Corporation.
According to a copy of the complaint, which was filed in Marion Superior Court 5 on Monday, Eskenazi employees failed to sufficiently restrain Orlando Mitchell after a medical appointment on July 10, 2023.
At that time, Mitchell was being held on a murder charge for shooting his son’s mother outside a daycare in 2022, a crime which Mitchell was sentenced to 66 years in prison on April 1.
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