TAMPA, Fla. -On August 31, 2020, The Free Press reported that an adult male body was found in a front yard on the 9300 block of Eden Drive in Tampa.
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, the man died due to gun violence in an apparent domestic dispute. Now his mother is suing the funeral service company who allegedly embalmed his body.
The lawsuit, Nerene Prince v. Foundation Partners Group LLC was filed on April 6 regarding the display of Jahleem Ray Parris’s corpse.
The defendant operates over 150 funeral homes and fifteen cemeteries. It owns Loyless Funeral Homes located at 19651 Bruce B. Downs, where Parris’s body was allegedly embalmed and other Loyless operations.
Prince wanted her son’s funeral at her place of birth – St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands – and retained James Memorial Funeral Home there to provide funeral and burial services. According to the lawsuit, because Parris’s body was in Hillsborough County, Florida, James Memorial contracted Foundation Partners Group to provide embalming services and necessary transportation and delivery of Parris’s body to their facilities in St. Croix.
An employee from the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner’s office contacted Prince to discuss an address discrepancy on Parris when comparing a police report and the death certificate. At that time, the employee indicated Parris’s body was presentable for a viewing at the funeral home.
However, something went awry.
Before the funeral service, Prince traveled to St. Croix and visited James Memorial Funeral Home to view her son’s body. The lawsuit states that when she saw him, his corpse was a “disfigured, decomposed body with organs visible and skin missing.”
Prince was clearly devastated, and the family could not provide an open-casket service as planned.
Prince’s attorney is Michael T. Lewenz of Zebersky, Payne, Shaw, Lewenz, LLP in Ft. Lauderdale. Lewenz could not be reached for comment.
The CEO and local embalmer were not available to respond to the lawsuit. Their defendant attorney, in this case, is not known.
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Sounds like a big case of stupid on the mother’s part. Typical in today’s society.
Dumb??? Dumb??? You don’t even deserve what I was about to say to you! Dumb??? On the mother’s part???? Dumbbbbb???