[HIGHLIGHTS] Full of lice, malnourished and without his medication: the family of a deceased prisoner in the US qualifies his death as "homicide"

Lashawn Thompson, 35, was found dead and covered in lice and feces in a jail in Atlanta, Georgia. He was malnourished, dehydrated and had not received his schizophrenia medication for a month, a private coroner said Monday.

The coroner of Fulton County, Georgia, had ruled in September that the cause of death of Thompson was "undetermined" But Roger Mitchell, the coroner hired by the family of the deceased said that he had been "neglected to death" and called what happened a "homicide"