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A confidential settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over the death of a Winston-Salem man at the Forsyth County Jail in May 2017. Deshawn Coley, the lawsuit alleges, begged
Forsyth County Jail's medical provider is scheduled to stand trial in April 2023 over allegations that staff repeatedly ignored a Winston-Salem man's asthma, leading to his death more than three years ago. Deshawn Lamont Coley, 39, was one of two Winston-Salem men who died at the Forsyth County Jail in May 2017. Coley died in the early morning hours of May 2, 2017, less than a month after he came into the jail to serve a six-month sentence for driving while impaired. An autopsy said he died as a result of complications from asthma. On May 26, 2017, another man, Stephen Antwan Patterson, 4...