Victims sue businesses for lack of security
Ohio businesses who chose to deny CHL-holders their Constitutional right to bear arms for self-defense would do well to keep in mind the growing number of victims' families who are deciding that the responsibility for security rests on the business. If Ohio businesses won't allow Ohioans their right to defend themselves, who else but the business should be held responsible?
The family of a woman who was murdered last year at the Northgate Apartments has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the owners and operators of the North Toledo apartment complex.
Roy J. Stevenson, who as administrator of the estate of the victim, Mary Stevenson, is seeking more than $25,000 in damages. Ms. Stevenson, 49, was found March 2 on the floor of her apartment. She was strangled and her throat was slashed.
The complaint, filed in Lucas County Common Pleas Court, alleges that the owners failed to provide adequate security for Ms. Stevenson and other tenants at the apartments, 610 Stickney Ave.
A wrongful death lawsuit been filed by the parents of a Wal-Mart clerk who was abducted and killed after her shift ended.
Wal-Mart is accused of negligence in the shooting death of 19-year-old Megan LeAnn Holden.
The lawsuit suit was filed Friday in Marshall by Sheri Kay Dunlap of Henderson and James Vincent Holden of Lindale.
Wal-Mart spokeswoman Christi Gallagher declined comment.
Store surveillance video showed Holden being kidnapped from the parking lot of a Tyler Wal-Mart on January 19th.
Her body was found two days later near the West Texas town of Stanton.
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