Household’s ‘Shock and Horror’ After Son’s Physique at Funeral Infested with ‘Transferring and Seen Maggots’: Swimsuit

A lawsuit filed by a mom in Chesapeake, Virginia reveals some disturbing allegations in opposition to the funeral dwelling that dealt with the service for her son, who had handed away on Might 2, 2022 from a automobile accident on the age of 24 years outdated.

Seven days after his demise, Terreon Williams’ household got here collectively at Snelling Funeral Dwelling to mourn his passing, and had been as an alternative so impacted by what they skilled that they retained a lawyer and have now filed go well with.

In response to the go well with obtained by NBC affiliate WAVYTerreon’s mom Tabitha Worrell and the household made a $3,000 down fee to the funeral dwelling to deal with the preparations and scheduled a viewing and repair.

“As mourners approached the physique of Torreon Williams, these individuals observed that Torreon Williams’ physique, significantly his face, nostril and mouth, had been coated with and consumed by clumps of maggots,” the lawsuit particulars of what occurred on Might 9, 2022.

Tabitha, “her household, and mates skilled shock and horror on the grotesque show of the physique of Torreon Williams,” reads the lawsuit.

“They supplied this household with a grotesque freak present,” the household’s lawyer Kevin Sharp informed WAVY. “Maggots pouring out of this younger man’s nostril. Maggots in his mouth, and on his face.”

“I simply keep in mind my sister screaming,” Tabitha’s sister Tiffany Barnhart informed the outlet.

And he or she additionally remembers how the workers allegedly responded, with Tabitha saying she noticed one feminine staffer “putting her hand on her, telling her to not make a scene.”

The best way the lawsuit describes the purported encounter, the worker positioned her fingers on Tabitha and informed her, “Do not you make a scene.” One other worker allegedly stated the “flies acquired to him.”

“She was mortified by the way in which they reacted,” Tiffany informed WAVY. “They nearly appeared to say, ‘You don’t overreact right here.’ You’re the one in charge, not what that they had achieved to her son.”

In response to the lawsuit, the maggots had been on Terreon’s physique for a while and “had been purposely ignored” by staff of the funeral dwelling. The go well with claims that they had “burrowed into holes in his cheek and moth that had not existed beforehand.”

Tabitha is claiming within the go well with that the funeral dwelling didn’t “adequately put together, protect and examine” her son’s physique earlier than the general public viewing. In addition they imagine that Snelling didn’t retailer the physique in a sealed refrigeration atmosphere, and it was thus uncovered to components.

WAVY requested Sharp how he believes this might have occurred. Whereas he says the reality will seemingly come out at trial, he provided his ideas. “How this occurred,” he stated. “They obtained his physique, and they didn’t correctly clear and disinfect his physique, after which he went by means of the embalming course of. That was improper.”

When reached for remark by WAVY, Hollomon-Brown Funeral Dwelling, Inc./Snellings Funeral Dwelling, Inc. CEO Casey Jones shared the next assertion: “The surprising passing of Torreon Williams is tragic, and we lengthen our honest condolences to his household. Nevertheless, as a result of the occasions following his demise are the topic of ongoing litigation, we don’t imagine it’s acceptable to remark publicly right now.”

The household’s lawsuit additionally claims that in some methods, the household feels as if they’ve misplaced the Tabitha they knew from earlier than this incident, claiming she now suffers “nightmares, trauma, sleeplessness, flashback, anxiousness, despair, nausea, humiliation, embarrassment, grief and horror that’s vital and completely impacts all of her actions.”

Tabitha, who’s listed as plaintiff, is in search of $5,000,000, in addition to prices and costs and all different reduction deemed truthful. The lawsuit states that she continues to incur bills associated to her ongoing “psychological remedy and care.”

The case is ready for Chesapeake Circuit Court docket’s civil division on July 28 at 8:45 a.m. The courtroom is anticipating a three-day jury trial.