$2M deal ends Mesa County jail lawsuit after death of man with severe intellectual disabilities

The family of a 24-year-old Mesa County man with severe intellectual disabilities will receive $2 million from the county and the jail’s former health care provider to settle a lawsuit alleging he died after the jail’s staff neglected to make sure he took his life-saving seizure medication.

The settlement comes nearly a decade after Tomas Beauford, who had the mental capacity of a 5-year-old and was unable to care for…