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Lawsuit filed by widow of slain security officer
Healthcare Security Weekly, August 25, 2008
The widow of a hospital security guard killed by a jail inmate as he escaped the facility, has filed a $9.8 million lawsuit claiming the Montgomery County (Virginia) sheriff and three deputies could have prevented the death, reported the Associated Press (AP).
Cindy McFarland filed the lawsuit in Montgomery County circuit court last month and contends that the defendants should have considered William Morva’s violent history when he was taken to a hospital for treatment in August, 2006. Security guard Derrick McFarland, 32, who worked at Montgomery Regional Hospital, was killed after Morva knocked out a deputy and took his gun. Morva was convicted of capital murder in March in the deaths of McFarland and a sheriff’s corporal and sentenced to death.
An attorney for the defendants said a jury determined that Morva was responsible for the deaths, the AP reported.
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