AG Mayes demands the investigation of the death of the woman after power has been cut off

Phoenix (Azfamilie) -Arizona's top prosecutor calls for an investigation of the heat-related death of a Sun City woman last year, who has recently made headlines due to the demand for the family.

Attorney General Kris Mayes sent a letter to the Arizona Corporation Commission on Tuesday, in which certain power companies are regulated to check what the Arizona Public Service (APS) led before Kate Korman's death. The 82-year-old had her electricity switched off on May 13th and were found dead six days later.

According to the district office of Maricopa of the Autopsy report of the medical examiner, she died of chronic ethanolism, which is generally known as chronic alcoholism and contributed with factors that contributed heart diseases and “environmental warming”. The high temperature on May 13 was 99 degrees and 95 degrees on May 19.

According to APS, Korman stopped paying payments for their electricity bill in January 2024. After 10 attempts to contact them, they switched off their electricity.

According to Mayes' letter, APS have voluntarily hired to separate power to customers who missed payments on May 16, more than two weeks before June 1, if companies cannot accept the electricity. “Ms. Korman can still be alive if APS had only stopped interruptions three days earlier,” said Mayes in the letter.

In 2024, Maricopa County let 138 people die in the interior for heat -related reasons, and almost 70% of which were cases in which air conditioning was present, but did not work within the house or worked.

She also said that the company did not do much to check Korman's death and did not talk to her family about the separation. Arizona's family asked the committee after the letter and they said they had heard of it but not received.

Last week the son of Kate Korman, Jonathan Korman, asked government officials to do more to protect the most vulnerable in the desert heat.

A few days later, Jonathan and his brother Adam Korman with Nick Myers, the deputy chairman of the Arizona Corporation Commission, get into an ugly exchange on social media because of death. The brothers wanted him to do more, but he accused them of their death.

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