Nikko Jenkins Filed Wrongful-Release Lawsuit

In 2014, American spree killer Nikko Jenkins filed a six-page handwritten federal lawsuit seeking $24.5 million from the State of Nebraska for wrongfully releasing him from prison. Nebraska had released Jenkins in 2013, after he had served 10 and a half years of an 18-year sentence, and he murdered four people in Omaha within the following month. Jenkins claimed prison officials had ignored his reports of hearing voices from the Egyptian serpent god Apophis and that solitary confinement had worsened his schizophrenia. A judge convicted him of all four murders, and in 2017 he received four consecutive death sentences plus 450 years in prison.

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