Posted on 09/16/2014 4:02:32 PM PDT by South40
DENVER (Reuters) - The parents of a woman killed in the Colorado theater shooting rampage filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against four companies that sold the accused gunman James Holmes ammunition, body armor and other gear used in the massacre.
Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, the parents of Jessica Ghawi, say the retailers including BulkAmmo.com, which sold Holmes more than 4,300 rounds of ammunition, were negligent when they sold the items to "a patently dangerous homicidal man."
Ghawi, a 24-year-old aspiring sports broadcaster, was one of 12 people killed in July 2012 when Holmes opened fire inside a suburban Denver theater during a midnight screening of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises."
"As gunowners, parents, and citizens of this country, we hope that our lawsuit will spare other families the tragedy that we have gone through after the death of our beautiful daughter," Sandy Phillips said in a statement.
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Who is funding them? Brady? Bloomberg? Both?
Read the article.
The lawsuit was filed by attorneys with the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence,
According to the article, Brady.
Expect this one to get dismissed quickly.
We don’t do that here. At least it doesn’t appear that we do.
An earlier article said that the Brady group was suing the vendors. I guess the Brady group went ambulance chasing for a family “with standing”.
Is this family also suing the theater as some victims’ families are doing?
Perhaps they should sue Hollywood for making movies for theaters.
Brady bunch.
Notice that they don’t sue Hennessey, Jim Beam, Johnny Walker, Coors, or Budweiser.
Despite DWI killing more people annually than the whole Vietnam war for the most part.
lol!
But they aren’t suing the shooter.
Harassment suit.
The premise is a lie. The lawyer of the parents brought the suit after coercing the parents into believing they will be guilty for ever if they don’t.
such a lawyer needs to be exiled to lower slabovia
They’re in it for the money.
Did the ammo malfunction?
Dang! No bargains there. They want $69 for a brick. I just got some for $25.
I can understand their hurt but they’re just grasping at straws ...
Guess we can look forward to the gas station owner getting sued because he sold the gas to the guy that hit the car.
ATTORNEYS ARE THE SCUM OF THE EARTH. AND THE JUDGES THAT ALLOW THESE BS CASES IN THEIR COURTROOMS ARE WORSE.
YES, I’M FED UP!!!
So... The gas station who sold gas for the car involved in a fatal collision should be responsible too???
So if I kill you with a hammer your family can sue home depot for selling it to you, they should have known before they sold it to you that you were a lunatic
I see Jessica Ghawi’s mom on the local San Antonio news from time to time..IIRC, they are suing the Theater. The woman/mother is an embarrasment to the State of Texas. I want to tell her to STFU every time she spews her angst on the television.
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