petition to shut down the funeral home filed by the state Cemetery and Funeral Bureau, the bodies were found April 2021 in a storage unit that had a temperature of roughly 60 degrees when an agency worker previously visited the mortuary.
Officials observed a “swarm of flies buzzing around” the unit’s exhaust vent, and noted a “foul and overwhelmingly strong” smell of decay, the petition said. “We’re fighting to get justice for these families in this incredibly sad and shocking situation,” City Attorney Mike Feuer said in a statement. “Eleven people died, including very young children, and the funeral director hired to compassionately prepare the bodies for burial allegedly just let them rot, with neither the decency nor the dignity that all our loved ones deserve,” he added.
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