“A significant number of jail staff were aware that Mr. (An autopsy found he died from complications of a broken neck and noted he was seriously dehydrated.) The judge also ruled that jail videos depicting Williams are admissible in the case, as are prior reviews or audits that found problems in the jail.ĭowdell’s 55 page ruling includes a blunt condemnation of the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office jail staff for failing to help Williams.
“They could also find that the medical unit-wide attitude of inhumanity and indifference shown to him, which resulted in the delay and denial of medical care in the face of his symptoms that were obviously indicative of a serious medical condition or medical emergency, amounted to deliberate indifference.”ĭowdell’s order denied motions by the defendants - Sheriff Vic Regalado and former Sheriff Stanley Glanz - to dismiss the suit. Williams’ needs were obvious to any layperson,” states the ruling by U.S.
In a key ruling Wednesday, a federal judge found that a federal civil rights lawsuit by Williams’ family against the county can go forward. The jail’s medical staff performed CPR on his lifeless body but it was too late to save Williams, pronounced dead Oct. On the morning of the sixth day, the 37-year-old veteran who faced no formal charge died on the floor of his cell. 21, 2011 to his death in a Tulsa jail cell Oct. This video is a compilation of the events between Elliott Williams’ arrest by Owasso police Oct. Instead, they watched him slowly dying on a video camera. But those in charge did nothing to find out whether his claims were true. The jail’s medical staff began to wonder if Williams might actually be paralyzed from a broken neck, as he claimed. On the fifth day, none of the jail’s staff bothered to enter Williams’ cell, Medical Cell #1. One day turned to two, three and four days. Though Williams begged for something to drink, he couldn’t pick up the styrofoam cups of water they placed near him. Moss Detention Center to help him.ĭetention officers at the Tulsa Jail tossed three styrofoam trays of jail food at his feet, but Williams could not retrieve them. Hungry and thirsty, Williams screamed for help but couldn’t convince anyone at Tulsa’s David L.
Photo courtesy NewsOn6Īfter more than five days on the concrete floor of his jail cell, Elliott Williams died naked, cold and alone, unable to move. Ellliott Williams was left on the floor of a cell in the jail for days without eating or drinking before he died in 2011.
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