Michigan Health Official to Be Tried for Flint Involuntary Manslaughter

By Willa Frej

Nick Lyon, the director of Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services, will stand trial for two counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of neglect of duty after two men died of Legionnaires’ disease during the Flint water crisis in 2015. 

“The victims’ deaths, that is Robert Skidmore and John Snyder, their deaths were caused by this neglect of the defendant, in [Nick Lyon’s] failure to act appropriately with regarding to disseminating notices to the public,” District Judge David Goggins said Monday. Lyon said he knew of the cases about one year before the outbreak was publicly disclosed in January 2016. 

“It’s a long way from over,” Lyon, who denies wrongdoing, told The Associated Press.

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Source: The Huffington Post