A 75-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran fatally shot himself in the chest while a patient at a Veterans Affairs hospital, after warning psychiatrists and social workers multiple times that he had access to a gun and was considering suicide, according to a $37.5 million wrongful death lawsuit filed by the man’s grieving family.
In the suit, which was filed Tuesday in Chicago federal court and reviewed by The Independent, Roy Fred Giddens, Jr.’s son Christopher – the executor of his father’s estate – blames the devastating turn of events on the physicians, social workers, and nursing staff tasked with his care.
