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Carrie Parkey
Date: 4/18/2017
Gender: Male
Age: 60
Race: Black
Time: 3 p.m.
Suspect(s): Cliftina Jones
Status: Suspect charged
What happened:
Carrie Parkey, 60, is found deceased in a transport van around 3 p.m. by Orange Grove Center employees. Parkey, a mentally disabled client of the center since 1974, was picked up at his residence around 8 a.m. but marked absent at the group home he he was transported to on Lillian Ct that morning. An initial autopsy from the Hamilton County medical examiner's office later stated Parkey died of hyperthermia from exposure to high temperatures and nine months later, Cliftina Jones, a former Orange Grove employee, was charged with criminally negligent homicide in connection to his death.
Read more:
• Orange Grove officials respond to mystery death of long-time patient
• State has investigated 210 allegations of abuse, neglect at Orange Grove Center since 2012
• Lawsuit: Longtime Orange Grove patient died of hyperthermia, dehydration
• Woman charged with homicide in connection to Orange Grove van death
• Woman charged with homicide in connection to Orange Grove van death
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