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A U.S. District Court magistrate says the man that the late Sherilyn Hayes, of Dalton, lived with at the time of her death by suicide will remain a defendant in
A U.S. District Court judge denies an attempt by a former Dalton Police officer to dismiss the claim, in a civil lawsuit, that he failed to provide Sherilyn Hayes with
DALTONâ Rather than hurry to the scene of a reported domestic dispute, a Dalton cop tried to protect a fellow officerâs reputation, a newly filed lawsuit claims, then engaged in a cover-up of actions taken, or not taken, on the night a young woman was found dead. Patricia Hayes, of Pittsfield, the mother of that woman, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit May 7 in U.S. District Court in Springfield that seeks $3,775,000 in damages. If police had gone to the womanâs apartment, as police policy dictates in domestic incidents, they might have saved Sherilyn Hayesâ life, the s...
DALTON â The town of Dalton was justified in firing a longtime police officer for not doing enough on the November night in 2019 that a resident called to say he feared that a neighbor might hurt herself. Nearly a year-and-a-half later, an arbitrator has upheld the townâs decision to fire John Marley for failing to take steps that could have saved the young woman, Sherilyn Hayes. Marley did not go to her North Street apartment, despite reports that she had threatened to kill herself, wasnât answering her phone and wasn't coming to the door when others knocked. She was found to ...