LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Months following the Hites Funeral Household was set on a 6-thirty day period suspension by the point out, for a amount of factors, like the mishandling of bodies, a previous employee is speaking out.
Rayvon Thomas claims he worked at Hites and an additional funeral property at the exact same time.
When evaluating how the two had been operating, he tells 8 News Now a thing was erroneous.
“When I see these babies stacked on leading of every single other my heart dropped,” Thomas suggests.
That is when he says he had decided sufficient was sufficient.
“I normally stated what if households came in here and noticed what you were performing with their loved ones,” he suggests.
Thomas states he’s labored in the funeral business enterprise for 5 many years.
He worked at Hites for a year and a half and then he says he was fired in July.
“I termed the labor board, I identified as the funeral board. I even identified as the Clark County Coroner’s place of work and acquired you guys place off rotation and when I told him that it was around,” he claimed.
Thomas statements he was allow go for threatening to report problems.
He shared movies and photos with 8 Information Now, which he suggests are from Hites, but most far too graphic to share.
“You have one more photo in which the bio waste bags are not in the bio bins,” states Thomas.
A person online video reveals what he states is embalming happening in the improper area.
Another demonstrates an individual sawing a metal shelf with sparks traveling on bodies stacked underneath.
An additional displays what he claims are babies stacked on a shelf.
The law states that human remains ought to not be put on other human remains.
“You will see there are five or six infants stacked on top of every other in each individual movie,” claims Thomas.
He adds that document-trying to keep was also a issue at the small business.
When requested if it is doable that men and women have the wrong stays Thomas tells 8 News Now, “So there is, of course individuals out there that is almost certainly not even their loved kinds, sorry to say, indeed, surely,” he explained.
Thomas suggests he referred to as the funeral board a lot of moments but under no circumstances submitted a criticism on the web – The board states that needs to occur for action to be taken.
“They require to be shut down, period of time,” he suggests.
8 News Now achieved out to Hites for remark, but they did not answer just before this report was submitted.
The board suggests they are even now overseeing the suspension process.
Bodies ought to be buried, cremated, or transferred by the stop of September.
The funeral board director also tells 8 News Now that there are organizations that do DNA checks on cremated remains but the prospects of having DNA out of the ashes is pretty reduced.