Man at center of Flint death case lived there all his life

It was one those deaths that led to the involuntary manslaughter accusations, Bill Schuette, Michigan's attorney general, said Wednesday.

Five officials in MI, including the head of the state's health department, were charged Tuesday with involuntary manslaughter, marking the first time investigators have drawn a direct link between the acts of government officials in Flint's water contamination crisis and the deaths of residents that followed.

Speaking directly to Flint residents who have been calling for Snyder to be among those charged, Schuette said the evidence so far has not supported his arrest. The move is considered temporary while the city waits to connect to a new regional water system. "This is a case where there has been willful disregard" for the health and safety of other people.

January 2015: Detroit offers to reconnect Flint to its water system, but Flint leaders insist the water is safe.

This investigation should have begun the first day that Flint residents began showing up at council meetings and complaining to the governor's office that their water was bad. State regulators insist the water is safe.

Gov. Rick Snyder won't run because he is term limited.

Among those still to be convinced is construction worker Johnathon Miller, 33, who won't drink Flint's tap water and uses it only to wash dishes after running it through a faucet filter.

Earlier, when asked whether Snyder would be ever investigated, Schuette said, "Nobody is off the table".

Lyon was personally briefed in January 2015 but "took no action to alert the public of a deadly" outbreak until almost a year later, special agent Jeff Seipenko told a judge as the charges were filed.

When Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette told me last summer that he would not rest until he had determined the role everyone played in one of the nation's greatest clean-water tragedies, he seemed to mean it.

Wells is accused of giving false testimony to a special agent and threatening to withhold state aid from the Flint Area Community Health and Environment Partnership if the partnership didn't stop its probe into the source of the Legionnaires' Disease outbreak in the Flint area.

Some critics have also called for high-ranking state officials to be charged. Some experts have linked the outbreak to the contaminated water after the city switched to Flint River water in April 2014, but the state health department has blamed McLaren Flint Hospital, which 40 of the 91 Legionnaires' cases, including Skidmore's.

December 16: Congressional Republicans quietly close a yearlong investigation into Flint's crisis, faulting both state officials and the Environmental Protection Agency. Former Flint emergency manager Darnell Earley and three other state officials who have already been charged with other crimes now also face involuntary manslaughter charges. The Michigan Civil Rights Commission issued a report in February blaming "systemic racism" going back decades for the problems that caused the water crisis in Flint.

March 16: Snyder announces that his administration will enact the country's toughest lead limit for water in the wake of the lead contamination in Flint.

The corrosive river water was not properly treated, allowing the lead from pipes to seep into the drinking water. The Health and Human Services director and the chief medical executive are appointed by the governor.

His attorney, Mark Kriger, said that his client was not yet formally charged with involuntary manslaughter, but that the announcement today simply leaves open that possibility. Dr. Eden Wells, chief medical executive of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, listens to District Court Judge Nathaniel Perry read her charges during her arraignment on Thursday, June 15, 20.

On Wednesday, Schuette said his team had not spoken with Snyder as part of the investigation.