OKLAHOMA CITY-- Another family is unhappy with the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office. Former M.E. Collie Trant was fired recently and is suing to get his job back. Now Kathy Young says Collie Trant had re-investigated her son's death and was going to change the cause of death after his findings.
She says the initial cause of death for Chris Young was linked to cocaine, but Trant's further examination found a lethal cocktail of drugs that had been prescribed by a physician in his body.
Young says he was going to change the "cause of death," but was fired before he could.
The Turner family was also awaiting a change on their daughter Chanda's death certificate from suicide to homicide.
They also say Trant was fired before the paperwork was done.
Thursday, the medical examiner's spokesperson Cherokee Ballard said they had just met about these two cases.
"We are in the process of reviewing the one and the other one has been completed and will remain on the death certificate with what it stated initially."
Young is devastated and her attorney says they will look into Federal Civil Rights actions against the State Office of the Medical Examiner.
She says the initial cause of death for Chris Young was linked to cocaine, but Trant's further examination found a lethal cocktail of drugs that had been prescribed by a physician in his body.
Young says he was going to change the "cause of death," but was fired before he could.
The Turner family was also awaiting a change on their daughter Chanda's death certificate from suicide to homicide.
They also say Trant was fired before the paperwork was done.
Thursday, the medical examiner's spokesperson Cherokee Ballard said they had just met about these two cases.
"We are in the process of reviewing the one and the other one has been completed and will remain on the death certificate with what it stated initially."
Young is devastated and her attorney says they will look into Federal Civil Rights actions against the State Office of the Medical Examiner.
