By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated April 19, 2023
The family of Lashawn Thompson alleges that he was eaten alive by bed bugs and insects in his cell while jailed in Atlanta.
On June 12, 2022, thirty-five-year-old Thompson was arrested “for misdemeanor simple battery, and after being determined to have mental health issues, he was placed in a psychiatric wing of the jail.”
On September 13, 2022 a mere three months