Williams v. State

This claim arises out of a tragic accident which occurred on August 9, 1982, in Anna, Illinois. On that date Donald Charles Meeker was a committed patient at the Anna Mental Health and Developmental Center at Anna, Union County, Illinois. Meeker escaped unmolested and unrestrained from the grounds in a taxi, which he had called from Anna, and went to a shopping center in Anna. He promptly obtained a knife and brutally murdered a 73-year-old retired Pentecostal minister named Benjamin Bradford Jones in the shopping center parking lot.

The decedent’s daughter, as administrator, brought this…