The family of a man who died at the Sierra Conservation Center in 2018 has filed a lawsuit, saying their son’s death could have been prevented and the real cause was covered up.
Jacorey Shaw was 26 years old when he was serving time for a drug-related crime at the Sierra Conservation Center in Tuolumne County in September 2018.
Brian Dunn, the attorney representing Shaw’s family, says Shaw agreed to participate in a firefighter training program that consisted of hours of physical activity. “He was doing about 2.5 hours of really strenuous physical activity on an unusually hot day,” Dunn said.
Dunn says on top of that, they added a third of a mile jog that wasn’t initially a part of the program on a day where temperatures reached more than 90 degrees.
“He could not ask for water in many instances because you would automatically fail if you did,” Dunn said.
Shaw collapsed shortly after completing the program and died later that evening.