$50M Lawsuit Filed In Abandoned Victims Case
Dominique Green's parents -- the Gary teenager who wasn't found by first responders after a car crash on Chase Street in Gary, Indiana -- have filed a $50 million lawsuit against Gary, Indiana and the Gary Police Department for failure to search for Dominique Green, reports the Northwest Indiana Times.
From an earlier Northwest Indiana Region Life report about Dominique Green's funeral:
A $50 million lawsuit was filed Monday against the city of Gary and its police department for failing to search for two young men ejected from a car during a crash one month ago.
The young men -- Brandon Smith and Dominique Green, both 18 -- were found dead by family members hours after the crash. In filing the lawsuit, personal injury attorney Kenneth J. Allen alleges Green, whose family he's representing, was alive at the time police ignored pleas to search for the pair.
From an earlier Northwest Indiana Region Life report about Dominique Green's funeral:
Dominique Green was one of two teens who was killed in a recent Gary, Indiana auto accident. He and Brandon Smith were left behind after the accident when emergency responders didn't find them after a survivor pleaded "Please go get my friends," according to news reports.
Gary police officials say that they searched for the victims, but weren't able to find them. The Lake County coroner released a report that said that the victims had died instantly.
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posted by Chris Hedges at
8:13 PM
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They were underaged, drunk and speeding and so completely at fault for their own demise but someone thinks that they can get a settlement out of the city. Good luck!
Hi Anon,
It will be interesting to see what happens. There is case law that says that the State has no duty to protect people. See Collins and by DeShaney v. Winnebago County Dep't of Soc. Serv., 489 U.S. 189 (1989).
However, the city might settle to prevent bad publicity, save attorney's fees, and to try to make everyone happy.
A lost child
and all we think about
is money
underage, drunk, speeding
their at fault
parents learn a lesson
live on
Hi Anon,
That's the real tragedy of the story.
Police go out to the scene and look around, but don't find the two teens who were ejected from the car. The dad goes out looking for his son and finds him the next day.
I can't imagine the horror the parents must have felt.
Someone thinks they found their meal ticket... sad.
I remember growing up, someone broke into our rural elementary school at night. The janitor waxed the floor before leaving. The villian slips and hurts himself, so sues the school district for not putting up caution signs. Sad.
I thought many states had laws preventing people from suing if they were injured while committing an illegal act, such as underage drinking, speeding, and driving intoxicated?
Who was driving the car?
Why hasn't he been charged with vehicular mansalughter for killing two of his passengers?
How did they get alcohol at an 'underage rap concert'?
Why aren't the parents mourning their children rather than trying to make a buck?
I agree, it seems like the father should direct his anger at whoever was driving or whoever gave his son alcohol. it would be interresting if it was his son who was driving.
Pathetic how the father cannot place blame where blame is due. His son is a criminal and he feels the need to blame someone rather than himself for the inability to raise his own child and teach him right from wrong (underage drinking, drinking and driving). It's his fault as much as anyone elses!
"The Green family believes if their son had been found earlier, he might have survived."
No Crap! And if they hadn't been drinking and driving they might have survived also!!!!!
I don't get this. How far out of the car were these two bodies ejected? "the woods nearby" -how far is that exactly? Can the seat belt manufacture be sued also? Always wear your safety glasses. Seriously.
"The true nature of what had happened to his son seemed to reveal itself to the father with each step through the brush. Arthur Smith said he saw his son's belt hanging from a tree limb, a shoe and finally, Brandon Smith's lifeless body draped over the trunk of a fallen tree."
If Brandon's belt was hanging from a tree branch and body wrapped around a tree, Brandon didn't survive for very long. Let's focus the blame where it belongs--the drunk driver and the kids that were not wearing seatbelts. The seatbelts would have probably saved them.
Everyone's looking for the "DEEP POCKETS".
INCREDIBLE HOW SOME PEOPLE CAN BE JUST SO IGNORANT OR PLAIN STUPID. THIS FATHER HAS NO LOVE FOR HIS SON BUT MONEY AND GREED HE SHOULD BE ASHAMED!!!!
Personal Responsibility. People are always trying to find someone else to blame. This is a tragic accident caused by young people making very poor choices. Maybe the parents should be focusing on teenage drinking, teenage driving, and seatbelt use. I hope the city does not give in.
Think about this...
So far there is no proof either way that Dominique Green was drunk or not. He may simply have been in "bad company". at the present, we do not have all the facts.
It appears Moore was driving.
One fact we do know is that Mr Green lay dying about 20 feet away from a crash. Recorded tapes appear to reveal young people (hurt and probably under the influence) asking rescuers to search and rescue their friends. Authorities suggest recordings do not tell all the story.
hmmm. methinks an independant investigation is required. It won't bring back the dead kids, but may reveal problems with search and rescue, which can be corrected for next time.
$50 million? Well they won't get that ... but it appears as if the system has let them down. If they win compensation. maybe they can pay some of the funds into a foundation to help victims of under-age drinking, as well as to assist youths in making better decisions.
Over to you, Mr Green Sr.
As for those of you who choose to use this forum to abuse others. well you are wallies, and the rest of us know it. you probably know it too.
graybob
whatyoutalkinbutwillis: How far out of the car were these two bodies ejected?
90 feet and 125 feet from the car.
Not 20 feet away, not trapped in the car (as they said on the BET "News You Should Know" blogs. If these kids were flying through the air fast enough to land 90 feet away from the car, they were either dead instantly or dead before any cops got there.
This family is grieving, and that's understandable, but their righteous fury is misdirected and I suspect now tainted with a fair heaping of greed.
Leave it to these people to try to use the death of a son to bleed the Man for money!! This is nothing unusual for these ignorant people. They live to try to get a free ride thru life at the expense of the Man. I hope it turns out that the dead son driving was the one with .09 blood alcohol in his system..thereby voiding their lawsuit.
"These People!!" What do you mean these people?!?! Do I detect a racist?
Not all the little baby turtles make it to the sea, either. Tragic, I agree. Newsworthy, not a chance. How long until Rev. Al gets involved do you think?
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