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https://www.11alive.com/mobile/arti...wingo/85-846db820-3ffc-4fd9-957a-7c757bda38a2
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COBB COUNTY, Ga. — An 11Alive Reveal investigation has uncovered video of a man detained by the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office who is repeatedly heard by staff screaming that he could not breathe, while deputies and medical personnel watched him slowly die.
It happened in September 2019, but details of his death were concealed for nine months until the sheriff’s office concluded its internal affairs investigation this past June.”
The man who died in custody is Kevil Wingo, a 36-year-old Atlanta resident arrested for drug possession and booked into the Cobb County Detention Center.
Video inside the jail does not have sound, but recorded interviews conducted by sheriff investigators paint a picture of what happened the night Wingo died. Some of the interviews were conducted within hours of his death and include nearly 40 sheriff's employees, medical staff and fellow inmates.
The internal investigation report by the department says no staff member committed a crime or violated any jail policy. The report did not recommend disciplinary action taken on any employee.
Wingo's family says what jail staffers did was a crime, and they need to be held accountable.
How it Happened
When Wingo arrived on Sept. 24, the jail placed him into the infirmary for “detoxification monitoring.” Staff prescribed medicine to treat nausea after he told the jail he used cocaine within the past 72 hours. Three days later, deputies returned him to the general population.
On Sept. 28, Wingo complained he had severe abdominal pain. Fellow inmates, deputies and some medical staff immediately noticed Wingo appeared ill.
One of them included Deputy Matthew Howard, who called the infirmary.
“He has been throwing up for a while now since I came on shift,” said Howard to a charge nurse named Yvette Burton. The nurse then asked the deputy if he saw Wingo vomit. “Yes, ma'am. I’ve seen him throwing up,” said Howard.
A short time later, the infirmary’s phone rang again. This time it was from Natasha Chance, a nurse in charge of administering medicine to inmates.
“He’s like, laying on the floor screaming, he’s sweating. He says he’s got abdominal pain. He can’t fake this,” Chance said to Burton.
Multiple inmates also witnessed Wingo vomit and complain about an ulcer, which is a painful sore that can develop in the intestines or the stomach. If left untreated, it can tear and allow bile to leak into the abdomen.
Investigators interviewed about a dozen inmates who were detained with Wingo. All but one of them believed Wingo was in severe pain and overheard him complain to deputies he was experiencing abdominal issues. Some of them heard Wingo specifically mention his ulcer.
“Within a couple of seconds, he just broke out in a big, big sweat,” said Billy Smith, a fellow inmate. “[Deputies] looking at us, like ‘He’s just detoxing.’ We’re like, ‘No, you need to come get him.”
An inmate named Robert Ward said he didn’t think deputies responded quick enough.
"What happened is the guy was in pain and nobody took him serious. He was laying on the ground crying for help and no one took him seriously,” said Ward.
Just before midnight, jail video shows a deputy transferred Wingo to the infirmary in a wheelchair hunched over and wincing in pain.
Deputy Quintin Appleby performed the transfer at 11:52 p.m. He also heard Wingo complain about an ulcer.
“He was saying, ‘I’m not going to make it. I’m about to fall out the wheelchair.’ And, I was kind of like, ‘No, you gonna be alright, we almost there,” said Appleby.
At the time, Wingo’s vitals showed no red flags, but for more than seven hours after, the father of three repeatedly begged to be sent to the hospital.
Wingo Collapses Multiple Times
Jail video shows him knocking on the glass door of his cell trying to get nurses’ attention and collapsing at least five times. Three employees said they heard Wingo complain that “he could not breathe.” Two believed him. One did not. None of them acted to save his life.
“When he yelled at me, yelling in the cell block, he said, ‘I need to go to the hospital, I can’t breathe.’ And, I talked to him for a minute, and I was like, ‘If you’re hollering, you are breathing,'” said Lynn Marshall, a deputy assigned to the infirmary.
A lab technician and a jail secretary were so concerned with Wingo’s condition, they asked a different charge nurse, Annaleen Visser, if they could take his vitals. Visser said no.
“He actually fell backwards onto the floor and crawled to the window and was asking again begging for help, saying he could not breathe," said Tiffany Womack, the lab technician in an interview with sheriff investigators.
At the time, Wellstar Health System, based out of Marietta, staffed and operated the infirmary at the detention center. After more than 20 years, it ended its contract this past May. WellPath, LLC is the current medical provider for the jail.
Two inmates detained in the same infirmary cell complained Wingo was falling into their beds. Both said they heard Wingo complain about his stomach or an ulcer.
“It’s like he couldn’t figure out how to stand up,” said Marcus Stevens, a fellow inmate.
Infirmary staff continued to watch it all unfold, including Tiana Davis, a secretary whose desk sits directly in front the infirmary cell where Wingo was detained.
"So, once he is banging on the door, he fell back," said Davis to an investigator. "So, I’m assuming he couldn’t breathe…I saw him fall back.”
► Click Here: Audio of internal affairs interview with secretary Tiana Davis
Nurses Disregard Pleads for Help
According interviews with investigators, Visser believed Wingo was detoxing and only wanted to go to the hospital to get pain medicine.
She admitted to refusing to take his vitals or allowing anyone else to do it. Visser claimed she didn’t do it because Wingo appeared rowdy.
“He was loud, he was, I don’t know what he was saying, he was just disruptive,” said Visser in an interview with investigators.
After sheriff's investigators watched the jail video in the infirmary, they told Visser they did not believe Wingo was rowdy. “We’ve seen the video, and I have yet to see him throughout the video acting out at all,” said Investigator Cody Driskell to the charge nurse.
Visser claimed she didn’t know Wingo was in pain or had trouble breathing. She also claimed no on her shift told her Wingo needed help.
Davis and Womack say that’s not true.
“Me and the secretary both asked the charge nurse, Annaleen [Visser], ‘Hey, he’s asking for help, can we help?’ She said, ‘No,’” said Womack, who is also a trained EMT.
In an interview with investigators, Deputy Marshall also believed Visser heard the same concerns.
“I mean, they all heard me. Well, I said that he’s saying he can’t breathe and I know Annallen [Visser] said he just wants to the hospital, he’ll be okay. She was the one that said put him in close-ops,” said Marshall.
After growing tired of hearing Wingo complain he was dying, Marshall said Visser then requested deputies send him to a padded isolation room, which are holding cells reserved for inmates who self-harm or are suicidal. According to Visser’s interview, and dozens of others, no jail staff saw Wingo try to hurt himself. The jail’s video supports it.
Despite no sign of self-harm, Deputy Marshall complied with Visser’s request.
“Hi, do you have a pad open?” said Marshall on the phone with another jailer asking for room availability. “I’ve got an idiot playing games trying to get to the hospital. He’s just playing around.”
When Marshall opened Wingo’s infirmary cell to bring him to the padded room, he collapsed onto the floor. It took deputies nine minutes to pick him from the ground.
On the way to the isolation room, he collapsed again and was unable to walk. Deputies put Wingo in a wheelchair and kept moving.
► WATCH | Deputy Marshall's internal affairs interview
Dying Alone
When jail staff placed Wingo inside the padded room 7:48 a.m., they stripped him of his clothes, left two cups of water inside and closed the door.
Jail policy requires staff to physically look inside isolation rooms every 15 minutes. According to jail video, that didn’t happen.
When it’s time to check on Wingo, Deputy Paul Wilkerson, who was assigned to monitor him, walks past the pad’s window two different times and does not look inside.
TLDR: black male in a county jail complained about he was in pain & he was vomiting, yet officers and even some nurses ignored his cries for help, and he ended up dying. This happened LAST YEAR, but it’s just now being released.
The jail did an internal investigation and they found no officers or nurses at fault. shyts about to go down in that racist ass county.
https://www.11alive.com/mobile/arti...wingo/85-846db820-3ffc-4fd9-957a-7c757bda38a2
“
COBB COUNTY, Ga. — An 11Alive Reveal investigation has uncovered video of a man detained by the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office who is repeatedly heard by staff screaming that he could not breathe, while deputies and medical personnel watched him slowly die.
It happened in September 2019, but details of his death were concealed for nine months until the sheriff’s office concluded its internal affairs investigation this past June.”
The man who died in custody is Kevil Wingo, a 36-year-old Atlanta resident arrested for drug possession and booked into the Cobb County Detention Center.
Video inside the jail does not have sound, but recorded interviews conducted by sheriff investigators paint a picture of what happened the night Wingo died. Some of the interviews were conducted within hours of his death and include nearly 40 sheriff's employees, medical staff and fellow inmates.
The internal investigation report by the department says no staff member committed a crime or violated any jail policy. The report did not recommend disciplinary action taken on any employee.
Wingo's family says what jail staffers did was a crime, and they need to be held accountable.
How it Happened
When Wingo arrived on Sept. 24, the jail placed him into the infirmary for “detoxification monitoring.” Staff prescribed medicine to treat nausea after he told the jail he used cocaine within the past 72 hours. Three days later, deputies returned him to the general population.
On Sept. 28, Wingo complained he had severe abdominal pain. Fellow inmates, deputies and some medical staff immediately noticed Wingo appeared ill.
One of them included Deputy Matthew Howard, who called the infirmary.
“He has been throwing up for a while now since I came on shift,” said Howard to a charge nurse named Yvette Burton. The nurse then asked the deputy if he saw Wingo vomit. “Yes, ma'am. I’ve seen him throwing up,” said Howard.
A short time later, the infirmary’s phone rang again. This time it was from Natasha Chance, a nurse in charge of administering medicine to inmates.
“He’s like, laying on the floor screaming, he’s sweating. He says he’s got abdominal pain. He can’t fake this,” Chance said to Burton.
Multiple inmates also witnessed Wingo vomit and complain about an ulcer, which is a painful sore that can develop in the intestines or the stomach. If left untreated, it can tear and allow bile to leak into the abdomen.
Investigators interviewed about a dozen inmates who were detained with Wingo. All but one of them believed Wingo was in severe pain and overheard him complain to deputies he was experiencing abdominal issues. Some of them heard Wingo specifically mention his ulcer.
“Within a couple of seconds, he just broke out in a big, big sweat,” said Billy Smith, a fellow inmate. “[Deputies] looking at us, like ‘He’s just detoxing.’ We’re like, ‘No, you need to come get him.”
An inmate named Robert Ward said he didn’t think deputies responded quick enough.
"What happened is the guy was in pain and nobody took him serious. He was laying on the ground crying for help and no one took him seriously,” said Ward.
Just before midnight, jail video shows a deputy transferred Wingo to the infirmary in a wheelchair hunched over and wincing in pain.
Deputy Quintin Appleby performed the transfer at 11:52 p.m. He also heard Wingo complain about an ulcer.
“He was saying, ‘I’m not going to make it. I’m about to fall out the wheelchair.’ And, I was kind of like, ‘No, you gonna be alright, we almost there,” said Appleby.
At the time, Wingo’s vitals showed no red flags, but for more than seven hours after, the father of three repeatedly begged to be sent to the hospital.
Wingo Collapses Multiple Times
Jail video shows him knocking on the glass door of his cell trying to get nurses’ attention and collapsing at least five times. Three employees said they heard Wingo complain that “he could not breathe.” Two believed him. One did not. None of them acted to save his life.
“When he yelled at me, yelling in the cell block, he said, ‘I need to go to the hospital, I can’t breathe.’ And, I talked to him for a minute, and I was like, ‘If you’re hollering, you are breathing,'” said Lynn Marshall, a deputy assigned to the infirmary.
A lab technician and a jail secretary were so concerned with Wingo’s condition, they asked a different charge nurse, Annaleen Visser, if they could take his vitals. Visser said no.
“He actually fell backwards onto the floor and crawled to the window and was asking again begging for help, saying he could not breathe," said Tiffany Womack, the lab technician in an interview with sheriff investigators.
At the time, Wellstar Health System, based out of Marietta, staffed and operated the infirmary at the detention center. After more than 20 years, it ended its contract this past May. WellPath, LLC is the current medical provider for the jail.
Two inmates detained in the same infirmary cell complained Wingo was falling into their beds. Both said they heard Wingo complain about his stomach or an ulcer.
“It’s like he couldn’t figure out how to stand up,” said Marcus Stevens, a fellow inmate.
Infirmary staff continued to watch it all unfold, including Tiana Davis, a secretary whose desk sits directly in front the infirmary cell where Wingo was detained.
"So, once he is banging on the door, he fell back," said Davis to an investigator. "So, I’m assuming he couldn’t breathe…I saw him fall back.”
► Click Here: Audio of internal affairs interview with secretary Tiana Davis
Nurses Disregard Pleads for Help
According interviews with investigators, Visser believed Wingo was detoxing and only wanted to go to the hospital to get pain medicine.
She admitted to refusing to take his vitals or allowing anyone else to do it. Visser claimed she didn’t do it because Wingo appeared rowdy.
“He was loud, he was, I don’t know what he was saying, he was just disruptive,” said Visser in an interview with investigators.
After sheriff's investigators watched the jail video in the infirmary, they told Visser they did not believe Wingo was rowdy. “We’ve seen the video, and I have yet to see him throughout the video acting out at all,” said Investigator Cody Driskell to the charge nurse.
Visser claimed she didn’t know Wingo was in pain or had trouble breathing. She also claimed no on her shift told her Wingo needed help.
Davis and Womack say that’s not true.
“Me and the secretary both asked the charge nurse, Annaleen [Visser], ‘Hey, he’s asking for help, can we help?’ She said, ‘No,’” said Womack, who is also a trained EMT.
In an interview with investigators, Deputy Marshall also believed Visser heard the same concerns.
“I mean, they all heard me. Well, I said that he’s saying he can’t breathe and I know Annallen [Visser] said he just wants to the hospital, he’ll be okay. She was the one that said put him in close-ops,” said Marshall.
After growing tired of hearing Wingo complain he was dying, Marshall said Visser then requested deputies send him to a padded isolation room, which are holding cells reserved for inmates who self-harm or are suicidal. According to Visser’s interview, and dozens of others, no jail staff saw Wingo try to hurt himself. The jail’s video supports it.
Despite no sign of self-harm, Deputy Marshall complied with Visser’s request.
“Hi, do you have a pad open?” said Marshall on the phone with another jailer asking for room availability. “I’ve got an idiot playing games trying to get to the hospital. He’s just playing around.”
When Marshall opened Wingo’s infirmary cell to bring him to the padded room, he collapsed onto the floor. It took deputies nine minutes to pick him from the ground.
On the way to the isolation room, he collapsed again and was unable to walk. Deputies put Wingo in a wheelchair and kept moving.
► WATCH | Deputy Marshall's internal affairs interview
Dying Alone
When jail staff placed Wingo inside the padded room 7:48 a.m., they stripped him of his clothes, left two cups of water inside and closed the door.
Jail policy requires staff to physically look inside isolation rooms every 15 minutes. According to jail video, that didn’t happen.
When it’s time to check on Wingo, Deputy Paul Wilkerson, who was assigned to monitor him, walks past the pad’s window two different times and does not look inside.
TLDR: black male in a county jail complained about he was in pain & he was vomiting, yet officers and even some nurses ignored his cries for help, and he ended up dying. This happened LAST YEAR, but it’s just now being released.
The jail did an internal investigation and they found no officers or nurses at fault. shyts about to go down in that racist ass county.
I'm not havin it. Homie aint goin out like that, in my presence. Ill beat all you nggas the fukk up, before that happens." 
