The families of 2 teenagers killed in a Florida car crash have filed lawsuits alleging the girls were misidentified by authorities, and the organs from the wrong girl were removed.
The suit further alleges that the error was not caught by the coroner and the county medical examiner's office"extracted several organs from the body of Samara Cooks, who was not an organ donor."
"When I was allowed to visit with her, I was robbed of that first chance of viewing her because I did walk in and see Ms. Deleigha," she said at a press conference Friday with her attorney and Gibson's parents."It was not Samara." When Ranada Cooks alerted the funeral home to the mix-up, Shimek said they tried to switch the bodies back without the families knowing.
"The thing I really want to say is her last wish was not fulfilled because she was an organ donor," he said."It was real brave of her to want to be an organ donor. For her not to get her last wish to maybe help a number of people, maybe even save someone's life, help someone out, is unfortunate."
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