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Date: July 05, 2019 06:52AM
Well, here's a weird horror story.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/case-mistaken-identity-family-finds-relative-alive-taking/story?id=64137348A family that was making funeral plans for a beloved relative who authorities said had died in hospice care was shocked when the man showed up at a friend’s barbecue, exposing what the family says is a fatal case of mistaken identity on the part of Chicago police and hospital officials.
Alfonso Bennett was out of town when police brought an injured and unidentified man to Chicago’s Mercy Hospital, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Cook County, Illinois. Although the man’s face was disfigured by injuries, police used mug shots to identify him as Bennett, the suit says.
When members of Bennett’s family were called to the hospital, they insisted to doctors that the patient didn’t look like him -- but they were told repeatedly that the identification was correct and that they were just in denial, according to the lawsuit.
"I said, 'Doc, I understand what you are saying but I cannot recognize him as my brother.' He was beaten," Bennett's sister, Rosie Brooks, said at a news conference Wednesday, according to ABC Chicago station WLS.
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