Telegram & Gazette
The father of a mentally ill Leominster man who died after a well-being call to his home in 2018 has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that undertrained officers botched the call and that Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. conducted a “charade” investigation.
“Within minutes the officers transformed (a) wellness check into a death sentence,” Hector E. Pineiro, the lawyer representing the father of 39-year-old Kris Mailloux, alleged in a suit filed Wednesday, Jan. 13 in U.S. District Court in Worcester.
Mailloux died several days after two officers responding to a well-being call restrained him on the floor of his grandmother’s home at 384 West St. on Jan. 14, 2018.
Father of mentally ill man who died after well-being call files federal lawsuit against Leominster police
WORCESTER The father of a mentally ill Leominster man who died after a well-being call to his home in 2018, has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that undertrained officers botched the call and that Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. conducted a charade investigation.
“Within minutes the officers transformed (a) wellness check into a death sentence,” Hector E. Pineiro, the lawyer representing the father of 39-year-old Kris Mailloux, alleged in a suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Worcester.
Mailloux died several days after two officers responding to a well-being call restrained him on the floor of his grandmother’s home at 384 West St. on Jan. 14, 2018.