David Henegar was in Johnson State Prison for a parole violation when he was beaten to death over five hours by his cellmate while staff ignored his screams and cries for help, according to a lawsuit his family’s attorneys said Georgia has settled for $4 million.
Henegar, 44, was supposed to have been released to a jail in another county two weeks before the deadly attack on Oct. 16, 2021, but prison officials kept him in custody in Wrightsville because of an administrative delay, lawyers for his family said.