BELIEVE IT OR NOT, PROSECUTORS SAY A LOUISVILLE PUBLIC WORKS CREW ACCIDENTALLY SCOOPED UP A 35-YEAR-OLD HOMELESS WOMAN WITH A GARBAGE TRUCK CLAW AND DID NOT CALL 911… AND NO ONE WILL FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES AFTER HER DEATH.
A disturbing Louisville case involving the death of 35-year-old Tyrah Adams has ended without criminal charges against the public employees involved.
Adams was homeless.
She was vulnerable.
In February, a Louisville Metro Public Works crew encountered her during an alley cleanup.
The city crew was clearing debris from the alleyway.
Workers were using the mechanical claw of a garbage truck to collect the material.
As the machinery operated, the crew accidentally scooped up Adams along with the debris.
She was picked up directly by the mechanical claw.
Then the crew realized there was a human being inside the debris.
Workers realized that a person had been caught in the equipment.
The crew lowered Adams back to the ground.
Workers put her back down in the alley.
According to records concerning the incident, workers realized she was alive.
Records indicate the crew was aware that Adams was moving after the incident.
Records indicate the crew was aware that she was breathing.
She was moving and breathing on the ground.
Yet according to information released about the case, no one from that Public Works crew called 911.
Not one worker requested emergency medical assistance for her.
No call for emergency help was made by the crew that put her down.
Adams was ultimately left to seek help elsewhere.
She was left on her own.
Adams eventually made her way to a nearby store.
At the store, someone else called 911 on her behalf.
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Adams later died.
The circumstances surrounding her death prompted an official criminal review.
Prosecutors examined the case involving the public employees.
But prosecutors ultimately concluded they could not establish the elements necessary to prove a criminal offense beyond a reasonable doubt.
They determined that the evidence did not meet the legal threshold for criminal prosecution.
As a result, no criminal charges will be filed against members of the Public Works crew.
The public employees will face no criminal prosecution.
That prosecutorial decision brought the criminal case to an end.
Yet that decision does not end the legal fight surrounding Adams’ death.
Her family has filed a lawsuit over the incident.
The family is seeking accountability through the civil court system.
The criminal and civil systems operate under different legal standards.
Because those legal standards differ, prosecutors declining criminal charges does not determine the outcome of the family’s civil claims.
The civil claim proceeds separately from the criminal review.
Adams was 35 years old.
She was homeless and vulnerable.
Whatever her circumstances, she was still a human being.
Records show she was caught in the debris.
Records show she was alive.
Records show she was moving.
Records show she was breathing.
No one on the crew called 911.
She was left to seek help elsewhere.
She later died.
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