A man kicked the bucket at an Atlanta prison in the wake of being eaten alive by bugs and blood suckers, his family's lawyer told USA TODAY on Thursday.

LaShawn Thompson, 35, was captured for crime straightforward battery in Atlanta the previous summer, authorities said, and taken to the Fulton Region Prison where he was set in the mental wing after authorities decided he was deranged.


As per a Fulton Province Clinical Inspector's report got by USA TODAY, Thompson was tracked down lethargic in his prison cell Sept. 19, and articulated dead after bombed life-saving endeavors by answering neighborhood police and clinical faculty.

"The official expressed that it is obscure the last time the decedent was viewed as the case keeps on being researched," the Oct. 26 report proceeds.

There were no conspicuous indications of injury found on Thompson's body, the coroner composed, however his whole body was shrouded in kissing bugs. The report likewise goes onto note a "extreme blood sucker pervasion" in the prisoner's cell in the mental ward.

Thompson's reason for death, the report shows, was recorded as dubious.

"Mr. Thompson was tracked down dead in a foul prison cell subsequent to being eaten alive by bugs and blood suckers," his family's Atlanta-based legal counselor, Michael D. Harper said Thursday. "We're requesting a criminal examination concerning the matter and (major) changes at the prison."

A claim for the situation is forthcoming, Harper said.

Bugs, lice and other vermin

The Fulton Province Sheriff's Office made an announcement to USA TODAY on Thursday stretching out its sympathies to Thompson's loved ones.

As indicated by the explanation, a full examination was sent off into the conditions encompassing his demise. As a piece of the continuous examination, activity taken included:

Supporting an extra use of $500,000 to address the pervasion of blood suckers, lice and other vermin inside the prison which was finished notwithstanding earlier cleaning activities focusing on transferable illnesses that are normal in devotee settings;

Refreshing conventions for security rounds to incorporate tending to sterile circumstances.

Not fit for a diseased Animal

Prison records got through openly available reports demands lay out the confinement workplaces and clinical staff at the prison saw Thompson's wellbeing was disintegrating, however never really controlled help to him or to help him, Harper told USA TODAY.

They in a real sense watched his wellbeing decline until he passed on," Harper said. "At the point when his body was found one of the confinement officials wouldn't regulate CPR on the grounds that in the most natural sounding way for her she 'went nuts.' The prison cell Mr. Thompson was housed in was not good for an unhealthy creature. He didn't merit this.

Notwithstanding a criminal examination, Thompson's lawyer said his family is calling for somebody to be considered responsible in his demise and the conclusion and substitution of the prison.

"Its an obvious fact that the weather beaten and quickly dissolving states of the ongoing office make it extraordinarily hard to meet the objective of giving a perfect, very much kept up with and solid climate for all prisoners and staff," the sheriff's office proclamation said. "For that reason Sheriff (Patrick) Labat keeps on calling building another Fulton Province Prison and Law enforcement Complex which will give a tip top degree of care, psychological well-being administrations, security and neatness.