Federal Lawsuit: Black Vietnam Vet Died In 2019 After Being Bitten Hundreds of Times by Fire Ants In Atlanta VA Facility
Joel Marrable was making peace with loved ones and preparing for his final days of his life.
The ex-Air Force airman and Vietnam War veteran was in the late stages of a bout with metastatic lung cancer. He moved to the Atlanta area to be closer to family and was a resident in the Eagles Nest Community Living Center, a long-term veterans care facility in Decatur, Georgia.
Joel Marrable and his daughter Laquna Ross in the Eagles Nest Community Living Center in Decatur, Georgia. (Photo provided Josh Sacks)
Family of bedridden military veteran, 74, who was eaten alive by fire ants at Atlanta VA facility file wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. government and pest control company
Joel Marrable, 74, an Air Force veteran living at a long-term care facility in Georgia was attacked by two waves of fire ants in the days before his death
His body was covered in more than 100 bites when staff at the VA’s Eagles’ Nest Community Living Center in Atlanta found him
Employees bathed him and moved him to a new room for three days before taking him back where he was once against attacked by the insects