Houston TX November 18 2021 The family of Axel Acosta Avila, one of 10 people who died in the chaotic crowd surge during the Astroworld Festival in Houston this month, is among 140 plaintiffs who brought a lawsuit Tuesday against the event’s organizers and others. The lawsuit seeks damages for loss of mental and physical […]
Harris County TX Nov 12 2021 Brian Williams accepted a job as a security guard for the Five Guys restaurant at the northeast corner of North Shepherd Drive and Loop 610. Two years after the off-duty constable’s deputy was shot in the arm during a robbery at the hamburger chain, he is suing the franchisee […]
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. Nov 9 2021 A grandmother is suing Horry County Schools after she said that a private school security officer put her 9-year-old grandson in a chokehold while the child was having a panic attack. The lawsuit, filed by Mary Ellen Lashoones, was filed on Oct. 4 in the Court of Common Pleas in […]
MIDLAND, Texas November 7 2021 Justice-that is what David Wilson and Nathan Heidelberg’s family members want. You’ll remember in March of 2019, Nathan Heidelberg, a Midland Police officer, was called to David Wilson’s house in the middle of the night. Officers were responding to a burglary in progress call after an alarm went off at Wilson’s […]
PORTLAND, Ore. Nov 6 2021— The wife of a man who was shot to death by a private security officer in the parking lot of a North Portland Lowe’s is suing the owner of the property and the security company who employed the man who shot her husband for $25 million. The civil complaint, filed Oct. […]
Henderson NV October 31 2021 The family of a shoplifting suspect who was fatally stabbed in January outside a Henderson department store filed a wrongful death lawsuit this week against the security officer accused of killing him. On Jan. 31, Ian Cullison was fatally stabbed by a security officer outside a Dillard’s at Henderson’s Galleria at […]
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. October 29 2021 A grandmother is suing Horry County Schools after she said that a private school security officer put her 9-year-old grandson in a chokehold while the child was having a panic attack. The lawsuit, filed by Mary Ellen Lashoones, was filed on Oct. 4 in the Court of Common Pleas in […]
Portland OR October 22 2021 The widow of a man whom a security guard killed outside Dream On Saloon in 2019 agreed Oct. 18 to a $200,000 settlement from the owners of the deep Southeast Portland nightclub. The club’s security guard shot and killed Eugene Pharr, an unarmed 42-year-old, in the parking lot on Jan. 15, […]
Portland OR October 21 2021 The family of Freddy Nelson Jr., the man fatally shot by an armed security guard this summer, is suing both the private security company who employed the guard and the real estate company that hired the security firm. The family is seeking $25 million. On May 29, Nelson was fatally shot […]
Hawaii October 11 2021 A transgender male security guard has sued his employer G4S Solutions (USA ), the state, the Department of Public Safety and sheriff’s deputies in federal court on claims of sexual harassment, invasion of privacy, retaliation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The complaint filed Sept. 10 in U.S. District Court for Hawaii […]