The parents of a 33-year-old man who died from a fentanyl overdose roughly 28 hours after he was booked into San Francisco County jail on misdemeanor charges this spring have sued the city as they press for more answers about what happened to their son.
Theris Coats Sr. and Andrea Coats filed a civil rights lawsuit last week in the Northern District of California alleging jail staff did not provide adequate medical care for their son, Theris Coats II, before a deputy found him on the morning of March 20 unresponsive in a cell bed with vomit on the floor.
With multiple investigations still ongoing nearly five months after Coats’ death, his father said there are “too many unanswered questions” haunting the family…