‘NOTHING SHORT OF HORRIFIC’

Glenn Foster Jr.’s Family Sues Funeral Home After Saints Player’s Death

Glenn Foster’s family is suing over the handling of the ex-New Orleans Saints player’s body, saying the funeral home did not properly preserve his brain.

The family of Glenn Foster Jr., a former professional football player who died shortly after being taken into police custody last December, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the funeral home tasked with handling his remains. The complaint accuses Carriage Services Inc., a Louisiana funeral company, of failing to care for the onetime defensive end’s body, and cremating his brain without consent. “The defendants in this case had one job to do, and their gross negligence and incompetence are nothing short of horrific,” said Kenneth Abbarno, an attorney representing the family alongside civil rights lawyer Ben Crump. The family has sought to have Foster’s brain examined for potential traumatic injuries from his NFL career, believing he may have been in the midst of a mental health crisis when he was arrested on a speeding violation in rural Alabama on Dec. 4, 2021. Foster died two days later, still waiting to be released. An independent autopsy commissioned by his family that month found that Foster’s body showed signs of “neck compressions and strangulation,” Crump said at the time.