‘Please Help, I Can’t Breathe’: Deputies Ignore Man Begging for Help, Until He Dies

Last September, Wingo was kidnapped by police and thrown during a cage the Cobb County prison because he had one among these prohibited substances in his possession.

Just days after being thrown during a cage, Wingo would be dead, having spent a previous couple of moments of his life begging for help that he would never receive.

According to 11Alive, the small print of Wingo's death was concealed for nine months until the sheriff's office finished its internal affairs investigation in June.

Wingo's family and now many others, afflict the results of this so-called "Investigation."

When Wingo arrived on Sept. 24, the jail placed him into the infirmary for "Detoxification monitoring." Staff prescribed medicine to treat nausea after he told the jail he used cocaine within the past 72 hours.

Three days later, deputies returned him to the overall population.

On Sept. 28, Wingo complained he had severe abdominal pain.

Fellow inmates, deputies and a few medical staff immediately noticed Wingo appeared ill.

One of them included Deputy Matthew Howard, who called the infirmary.

The nurse then asked the deputy if he saw Wingo vomit.

Moments later, another nurse called to report that Wingo was in distress.

These calls fell on deaf ears to deputies and nurses who thought Wingo was simply detoxing.

"What happened is that the guy was in pain and no-one took him seriously. He contacted the bottom crying for help and nobody took him seriously," said another inmate Robert Ward.

A little before midnight, jail footage shows a Deputy Quintin Appleby transferring Wingo to the infirmary during a wheelchair as he winces in pain.

Appleby said he also heard Wingo complain about a few ulcers.

Wingo was then wheeled into a glass room where he collapsed and commenced begging for his life, saying "Please help, I can not breathe." But, like numerous cops say as they squeeze the life from people saying an equivalent thing, staffers told Wingo that he could breathe.

"He actually fell backward onto the ground and crawled to the window and was asking again begging for help, saying he couldn't breathe," said lab technician Tiffany Womack in an interview with sheriff investigators.

Despite the very fact that Wingo was in clear distress, officials refused to even take his vitals.

Deputy Marshall accused Wingo of "Playing games" and was getting to throw him during a padded room for people that want to harm themselves.

"I've got an idiot playing game trying to urge to the hospital. He's just fooling around," Deputy Marshall said as he requested a padded room.

When jail staff placed Wingo inside the padded room at 7:48 a.m., they stripped him of his clothes, left two cups of water inside, and closed the door.

Jail policy requires staff to physically look inside isolation rooms every quarter-hour.

When it is time to see on Wingo, Deputy Paul Wilkerson, who was assigned to watch him, walks past the pad's window two different times and doesn't look inside.

Within an hour of placing Wingo within the padded room, Wilkerson found him cold to the touch and not breathing.

A doctor pronounced Wingo dead at 9:51 a.m. Wingo hadn't harmed anyone.

Had that they had one ounce of compassion or cared in the least, Wingo's death was easily preventable.

"At the top of the day, I desire he shouldn't have died like that. Like, he died alone. He died during a room screaming for help and he's asking y'all for help," said Tiffany Wingo, his sister.