Article 3X89Q Flint water crisis: Michigan health director ordered to manslaughter trial

Flint water crisis: Michigan health director ordered to manslaughter trial

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Enlarge / Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon. (credit: Getty | Alex Wong)

A judge on Monday ordered Michigan's top health official, Nick Lyon, to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter charges in two deaths linked to the Flint water crisis.

Genesee District Judge David Goggins determined that there was probable cause that Lyon committed involuntary manslaughter against Robert Skidmore and John Snyder in 2015. The two men died during an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease, which researchers have connected to the devastating use of improperly treated water in Flint starting in 2014.

Lyon, the director of Michigan's Department of Health and Human Services, is the highest-ranking official in the state to stand trial in connection with the catastrophe. An additional 14 current or former state and local officials have been criminally charged in connection with the water issues.

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