Family awarded $3M settlement in wrongful-death case against ex-jailers, county and sheriff

The family said John Neville’s civil rights were violated when detention officers and a nurse ignored his medical distress and pinned him on a mattress.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — The family of a Black man who yelled that he couldn’t breathe before he died in a North Carolina jail in 2019 has reached a $3 million settlement in its wrongful-death lawsuit, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

John Neville’s family reached the settlement with all five former jailers who were initially charged with involuntary manslaughter in his death as well as with Forsyth County government and Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough Jr., the 

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