Dallas concert shooting victim’s attorney files a $1M lawsuit against promoter and entertainers

DALLAS — Wednesday night, Dallas police and Dallas path trip representatives will likely be assembly to speak about what they may’ve executed in a different way, after the capturing three weeks in the past.  

One man died and 16 individuals had been shot.

Now, one other sufferer and the Dallas Metropolis Legal professional’s Workplace have filed lawsuits.

The sufferer’s household waits by her hospital bedside, and is taking it daily.

“I’m actually torn up proper now,” Moneica Anderson mentioned, whose daughter was shot within the head. 

Anderson’s daughter, Jazmin, was on the Second Annual Epic Easter bike out, and discipline occasion in Southern Dallas.

She was standing subsequent to Kealon Gilmore, who died within the capturing.

“My child acquired shot within the head,” mentioned Anderson. 

Sufferer shot within the head at southern Dallas live performance could have cognitive points for the remainder of her life, household says

A neurosurgeon informed Jazmin’s mother the bullet cut up aside, and Jazmin could have bullet fragments in her mind for the remainder of her life. 

Now, her legal professional, Chris Mazzola, filed a $1 million lawsuit towards the promoters, entertainers, the leisure venues and the property proprietor.

“You have to be held answerable for the lives that you just affected. We’re going to ensure we do every thing doable,” mentioned Mazzola. 

In keeping with the lawsuit, the 22-year-old has irreversible mind injury, and her legal professional claims she couldn’t get to the hospital quick sufficient as a result of there have been so many individuals on the path trip. 

“The highway was so blocked, congested, that there’s actually one highway in, and one highway out,” mentioned Mazzola. 

The lawsuit claims the individuals concerned not solely didn’t have a allow for the occasion, however didn’t have sufficient security tools or safety personnel.

“Reckless, irresponsible, egocentric,” mentioned Mazzola. 

Wednesday night, the Dallas Metropolis Legal professional’s Workplace additionally filed a lawsuit towards the occasion property proprietor, St. John Missionary Baptist Church Inc., and the promoter for violations towards town code. 

Jazmin’s mother is desperately asking the general public to come back ahead with any info regarding the capturing. 

“That is actual,” Anderson mentioned. “If anyone is aware of one thing, please say one thing. They must be dropped at justice.” 

The Dallas Police nameless tip line is 214-373-8477.