The family of a 29-year-old Hartford man killed by former inmate Wayne World has filed a lawsuit seeking most or all of the $1.3 million World will get from the state for misdiagnosing his cancer while he was incarcerated.

In 2008, World pleaded guilty to the 2006 stabbing death of Omari Lawrence, an acquaintance. He was charged and convicted of first-degree manslaughter. World was sentenced to 17 years in prison in 2009, but was released earlier this year due to an illness apparently stemming from being misdiagnosed with psoriasis when he actually had skin cancer. He recently received a second bone marrow transplant and is going through an aggressive chemotherapy regiment.

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