A Minnesota man has filed a federal lawsuit after he says jail staff failed to provide medical care to his son, leading to his death.
On July 18, 2022, 41-year-old Lucas Bellamy was arrested and taken to the Hennepin County Jail. In the days that followed, Bellamy would plead with jail employees for help. Three days late he was dead.
When Bellamy was booked into the jail, he informed the staff that he had swallowed a bag of drugs. He was taken to an emergency room at a local hospital, where he was sedated and monitored for several hours before being sent back to the jail, according to the lawsuit.
Hospital staff ordered that Bellamy be monitored and returned to the emergency room if any new symptoms showed up, the lawsuit said.
In the next few days, Bellamy began to develop new symptoms and could barely stand, according to the lawsuit.
On the morning of July 20, just after midnight, Bellamy became very ill and began vomiting. He was then moved from general population to a single-person cell, the lawsuit said.