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GA: Suit filed in gun show death
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Suit filed in gun show death
Boy fatally shot at exhibit where ammunition banned
By BILL RANKIN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The mother of a 13-year-old killed in July 2002 at a Norcross gun show has sued the gun show owner and the vendor whose firearm caused the teen's death.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, accuses Eastman Gun Shows Inc. and vendor Cleveland Lewis Chaney of negligence in allowing a loaded handgun into the show.
Steven Bray King was shot through the eye on July 14, 2002, while at the show with his father, Anthony Grant of Montgomery.
The youth died a day later at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.
"If the rules had been enforced, this tragedy never would have occurred," said Paul Kilpatrick, the lawyer for Steven's mother, Martha King Clark. "They represented to the public there would be no loaded guns in the facility."
The lawsuit seeks compensation for Steven's medical and funeral expenses, the value of his lost life and attorneys' fees. No exact amount of damages was given.
Eastman had a duty "to formulate and enforce strict security measures to prohibit loaded firearms from being brought into the gun show," the lawsuit said. The company also had a duty to inspect the premises to discover any possible dangerous conditions, the suit added.
A man who answered the phone at Eastman's headquarters in Fitzgerald said the company had no comment.
Decatur lawyer William G. Quinn, who represents Chaney, the vendor, said his client recently entered a plea in Gwinnett State Court to wreckless conduct for the incident and was sentenced to probation and fined.
Because Chaney has serious medical problems, he did not attend the Gwinnett hearing. Chaney entered an "Alford plea," in which he pleads guilty by saying it is in his best interest to do so, not because he admits guilt.
Quinn said the gun that killed Steven was Chaney's personal handgun and that Chaney had left the gun show but was called back inside to make a sale.
"Nobody knows who was holding the gun and the time it was discharged," the Decatur lawyer said. "There are conflicting statements from everyone."
Chaney, a decorated Vietnam War veteran from O'Brien, Fla., is heartbroken over the incident, Quinn said. "He grieves for the parents, he grieves for the child, and ever since that happened, he's never been the same."
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0803/22gunshow.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878<P>
Boy fatally shot at exhibit where ammunition banned
By BILL RANKIN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The mother of a 13-year-old killed in July 2002 at a Norcross gun show has sued the gun show owner and the vendor whose firearm caused the teen's death.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, accuses Eastman Gun Shows Inc. and vendor Cleveland Lewis Chaney of negligence in allowing a loaded handgun into the show.
Steven Bray King was shot through the eye on July 14, 2002, while at the show with his father, Anthony Grant of Montgomery.
The youth died a day later at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.
"If the rules had been enforced, this tragedy never would have occurred," said Paul Kilpatrick, the lawyer for Steven's mother, Martha King Clark. "They represented to the public there would be no loaded guns in the facility."
The lawsuit seeks compensation for Steven's medical and funeral expenses, the value of his lost life and attorneys' fees. No exact amount of damages was given.
Eastman had a duty "to formulate and enforce strict security measures to prohibit loaded firearms from being brought into the gun show," the lawsuit said. The company also had a duty to inspect the premises to discover any possible dangerous conditions, the suit added.
A man who answered the phone at Eastman's headquarters in Fitzgerald said the company had no comment.
Decatur lawyer William G. Quinn, who represents Chaney, the vendor, said his client recently entered a plea in Gwinnett State Court to wreckless conduct for the incident and was sentenced to probation and fined.
Because Chaney has serious medical problems, he did not attend the Gwinnett hearing. Chaney entered an "Alford plea," in which he pleads guilty by saying it is in his best interest to do so, not because he admits guilt.
Quinn said the gun that killed Steven was Chaney's personal handgun and that Chaney had left the gun show but was called back inside to make a sale.
"Nobody knows who was holding the gun and the time it was discharged," the Decatur lawyer said. "There are conflicting statements from everyone."
Chaney, a decorated Vietnam War veteran from O'Brien, Fla., is heartbroken over the incident, Quinn said. "He grieves for the parents, he grieves for the child, and ever since that happened, he's never been the same."
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0803/22gunshow.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878<P>
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