UPDATE: More on Jerry Lawler’s Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Brian Christopher

UPDATE: PWINsider has more details on Jerry Lawler’s wrongful death lawsuit against Hardeman County, Tennessee over the 2018 passing of his son Brian. According to the site, Lawler’s suit is filed against both the county and Hardeman County Sheriff John Doolen. The suit alleges that the Sheriff’s Office failed to provide Brian with treatment for drug and alcohol issues during his incarceration, and that they “altogether failed to provide him with appropriate care after he was assaulted by another inmate” on the day Brian died.

Lawler says that the only reason he didn’t bail Brian out when he was arrested for his DUI was that he explained to Doolen that Brian needed help for addiction issues. He says Doolen promised him that Brian would get treatment. Lawler is also claiming negligence on the part of the officers who were supposed to be supervising Brian, alleging that one officer saw Brian in the corner of his cell with a towel over his head but didn’t go to check on him, instead taking the garbage out. It wasn’t until he returned, saw Brian still in that position and grabbed a co-worker that he finally checked, finding that Lawler had hung humself. Lawler claims that the officer’s attempts to rescue Brian were ineffective at first, using a pair of children’s scissors to cut him free. Lawler argues that if the Hardeman County Sheriff’s Office had been better prepared, and had the staff acted more immediately upon seeing Brian in the corner, he may have been saved.

The lawsuit seeks $3 million in damages as well as additional compensatory damages if the court sees fit, as well as a court order that would force Hardeman County to enact immediate changes to prevent future suicides “so that no other family has to go through what this family has had to endure over the past year.”

ORIGINAL: WMC Action News 5 in Memphis reports that Jerry Lawler has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Hardeman County, Tennessee over the 2018 death of his son Brian Christopher Lawler. Lawler wants damages for what he says are “numerous failures of the county and its employees that resulted in the wrongful death of his son.”

Brian was found hanging in his jail cell in July of last year at the age of 46. His death was ruled a suicide by Jerry claims that this is false. In August that same year, he shared photos of Brian in the hospital prior to his death. THe injuries in the photos don’t match up with those he would have received from a suicide. He will host a press conference later today (at 2 PM) to talk about the lawsuit with his attorney Jeffrey Rosenblum.

Lawler is also asking Sheriff John Doolen to change how the Hardeman County Jail protects inmates from being hurt.