Jimmie Lee Douglas was strangled and killed by a fellow psychiatric patient at a Daytona Beach Hospital. Halifax Health was faulted by the state of Florida for inadequate supervision according to an AP story on the website TBO.com and now they have settled a lawsuit with Douglas’ widow.
According to the story the hospital has agreed to pay $200,000 one day after a lawsuit was filed. Douglas’ widow and John Hill, the man who killed her husband, are both receiving some of the money from the settlement although the breakdown was unknown at the time. Hill claimed voices told him Douglas was evil and should be killed. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity at trial.
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