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One Miami coronavirus death has an unusual distinction: It’s being investigated as a murder
The unusual case involves a luckless man named Johnny Copeland, 44, who died late last month of COVID-19 with contributing problems of pneumonia, obesity and hypertension. But with all that, the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the chief cause of death was from complications of a gunshot wound that left Copeland paralyzed in 1997.
With his death ruled a homicide, Miami detectives must try and track down who was to blame in a shooting that happened 23 years ago.
Copeland’s life was marked by bad breaks. He was also a victim in an ongoing criminal court case — his wife, Miami-Dade police said, abandoned him in an empty house and he was discovered dehydrated and disoriented, covered in feces and urine.
Fortysomething nigger living in a nursing home. SMDHAnd when the global pandemic broke out, Copeland was living at the North Dade Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, a facility that wound up getting hard hit by the virus, with 38 residents testing positive. At least three residents have died.
Just an All-American 'fambly.' LOLCopeland’s death continued a series of heartbreaks for his family. Another of Jones’ brothers also died last month, of colon cancer. Their grandmother — with whom Copeland was close — passed away a couple years ago, also of cancer.
Like her brother, Jones was also the victim of a crime. She was stabbed 15 times by the father of her children; she barely survived and had to learn to walk again.
Spaghetti and sausages- that explains the diabetes and obesity.He struggled to accept his paralysis at first. But over the years, while surviving on government disability funds, he became self-reliant. With full use of his arms, he could get out of bed and cook for himself — his favorite dish was spaghetti with sausages.
But Copeland’s health — mental and physical — began to deteriorate over the years. He married Jakeya Javon Brown in August 2015, records show. But the relationship became rocky quickly, and the two were living in her sister’s former home in Princeton.
It was September 2015. The home was up for sale and was supposed to be empty. The owner was checking on the property and found Copeland sprawled out on the ground, his wheelchair next to him.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...242494456.htmlA trachea tube, which he’d had to use over the years to help breathe, had not been cleaned and he had bed sores.
The Florida Department of Children and Families opened up an investigation. An investigator finally got a hold of Brown, according to an arrest warrant, who claimed she’d fainted at a nearby McDonald’s and had to be taken to Kendall Regional Hospital.
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