A body was dropped down a flight of stairs by mortuary workers who then denied it while displaying the “dented” body to the man’s family at his wake, the Daily Beast reported.
A lawsuit filed by the man’s family says their relative was shown with “denting and bruising on [the deceased’s] head.”
The widow and three children of Juan “Chuco” Mejia filed the lawsuit in Texas.
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The funeral parlor the family had hired in Majia's hometown of Eagle Pass used Twinwood Mortuary Services in Houston to transport his remains from that city, where he died of cancer in 2021.
Two workers turned up at the second-floor apartment and, “As the employees began to transport Juan Mejia’s body down the steps located outside of the condo, Plaintiff William Mejia closed the door and heard a thump,” the lawsuit said.
“Plaintiff William Mejia then heard several thumps in a row.”
The suit says he found the stretcher, “tipped over with the employee carrying the foot of the stretcher on his knees to the left of the staircase near the lawn bricks. The employee carrying the head of the stretcher was on the ground to the right of the end of the staircase near the bushes.”
The body, the suit says, was lying on the concrete pavement.
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“One employee apologized for the situation and agreed that the situation should not have happened the way it did,” according to the lawsuit, reported by the Beast. “He admitted that no one should have seen what the Plaintiff William Mejia saw.”
But when the family complained to the funeral home in Eagle Pass, he was told the workers denied what he said was true.
Efforts made by the Daily Beast to contact Twinwood Mortuary Services were unsuccessful.
