Nevada settled lawsuit over man's prison death for $4.6 million, lawyer says

Nevada has agreed to salary $4.6 cardinal to settee a suit that accused situation guards of beating up a man and leaving him to dice successful 2023, a lawyer said Tuesday.

The aesculapian examiner said Christian Walker's decease astatine High Desert State Prison adjacent Las Vegas was earthy and caused by bosom problems. But nan autopsy study showed that he had caput trauma and different injuries to his torso, cervix and extremities.

Walker, 44, was beaten doubly wrong a short play aft being transferred from different prison, nan first clip aft a conflict astir his individual possessions, said James Urrutia, an lawyer for his family.

“There is perfectly nary grounds that (Walker) had immoderate bosom disease, nary issues astatine each pinch his heart,” Urrutia told The Associated Press.

An email and telephone connection seeking remark astir nan colony were not instantly returned by nan Department of Corrections.

Urrutia said he settled pinch nan authorities earlier a proceedings because Walker's family was satisfied that nan litigation revealed specifications astir what happened. Clark County remains a suspect successful nan case.

“My ego decidedly doesn't consciousness for illustration it's a large capable number,” he said of $4.6 million.

Walker had been successful situation for much than 20 years. He was serving a life condemnation pinch nan anticipation of parole for nan decease of his 17-year-old woman successful 1997.

Walker’s look was swollen and smeared pinch humor erstwhile he died successful custody, according to nan suit and nan autopsy report.

Prison unit said Walker had many times ignored commands and showed aggression toward officers, starring them to restrain him pinch batons and their hands, according to nan autopsy.

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