Family sues over suicide in NW IN jail

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) - The family of a Lansing, Ill., man who killed himself in the Lake County, Ind., Jail claims in a lawsuit that he wasn't properly monitored even though a judge had warned he was a suicide risk.

Federal Magistrate Paul Cherry said jail officials should put 39-year-old Adekunle Odumabo under suicide watch after he said repeatedly in court that he wanted to die. Four days later, Odumabo was found hanging from a bed sheet in his cell.

An attorney for the sheriff and the jail warden says Odumabo was evaluated by a mental health center and jail officers were told he could be removed from suicide watch.

His family is seeking unspecified damages in his April 2007 death.