CHARLESTON, Mo. (AP) — Relatives of a man from Tennessee who died in a Missouri jail in 2017 have been asked to accept $2.5 million to settle a lawsuit, court filings show, but the family’s attorney says no settlement is pending.
The city of Charleston agreed earlier this month to pay $500,000 to the family of Tory Sanders, of Nashville, who died in the Mississippi County Jail.
Now lawyers for Mississippi County jail employees and the former sheriff are asking a judge to require Sanders’ family to accept $2 million to settle the rest of the case, according to court documents.
The attorneys said in motions filed Wednesday that a state insurance fund had agreed to the Sanders family’s request for $2 million but that the family has increased its demands to $3.5 million, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
An attorney for Sanders’ relatives, Sam Wendt, said Thursday that no settlement was pending.