EAST ST. LOUIS — The estate of a former Illinois Department of Corrections prisoner claims the lack of a proper diagnosis and medical treatment led to the inmate's death from intestinal cancer.
Keyana Wiley, as administrator of the Estate of Omar H. McCullough, filed a complaint June 16 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against Wexford Health Sources Inc., Justin Young C. Walker, Angelica Wachtor, Nurse Cynthia and Justin Duprey, alleging denial of medical care, failure to intervene and wrongful death.
According to Wiley's complaint, her brother Omar McCullough entered into the custody of the IDOC at Pinckneyville in early 2016 to serve a prison sentence with an anticipated release date of July 2019. She alleges that in June 2016, McCullough began to suffer severe abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation and blood in his urine and sought medical treatment at the prison infirmary. Wiley claims that over the next few years, McCullough was not given proper tests or medical treatment. She also alleges serious symptoms continued to be ignored as McCullough's health condition worsened, including his extreme weight loss and becoming so weak that he could not walk. She alleges that in June 2019, McCullough began convulsing while at the infirmary and was sent to an outside emergency room where he was diagnosed with intestinal cancer that has spread to other parts of his body. He died in March 2020, the suit states.
Wiley seeks monetary relief, trial by jury and all other just relief. She is represented by Stephen Weil, Jon Loevy and Sarah Grady of Loevy & Loevy in Chicago.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois case number 3:21-CV-00599