JACKSONVILLE, Fla. ā The family of Iyana Sawyer has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her uncle, whoās charged in her murder and disappearance, News4Jax has learned.
Quiles, 35, was indicted in July 2019 on a first-degree murder charge after the Jacksonville Sheriffās Office said police obtained an admission, through another inmate, that Quiles shot his niece.
The Sheriffās Office searched the Otis Road landfill for weeks in the wake of Sawyerās disappearance, but her body was not recovered during the search.
AdSawyerās familyās lawsuit, which was filed in December, claims that Quiles shot the teen and then placed her body in a dumpster at his place of work, a Jacksonville auto salvage lot.
Lawyers for Quiles, meanwhile, have filed a flurry of motions to block the death penalty.