The lawsuit accuses the two companies of failing to prevent the alleged shooter from entering the Texas State Fair with the gun he used to shoot three people.
DALLAS – One of the victims of last year’s State Fair of Texas shooting has filed a civil lawsuit against the alleged shooter and two of the companies tasked with helping provide security at the fair.
The lawsuit accuses Andy Frain Services of failing to stop the alleged shooter, Cameron Turner, from entering the fair with the semi-automatic pistol he was supposed to use to shoot three people. GXC manufactured the detection instruments used at the fair at the time, but those instruments, the lawsuit alleges, did not detect or alert Frain’s staff to the gun Turner was carrying.
“Regardless of whether the trier of fact determines that defendant Frain failed to stop defendant Shooter when he knew, or should have known, that he was carrying a weapon, or that defendant GXC’s instruments failed to detect the weapon and alert personnel when they should have fact. “One finding of Defendant Frain is certain: Defendant Frain did not have any surveillance at the point of entry,” the lawsuit argues.
Instead, the lawsuit continues and the video shows Turner approaching the canopy-covered entry control point and leaving sight of all surveillance as he passes under the canopy.
“Did grossly negligent security staff quit Defendant Shooter after GXC instruments alerted them? There is no video,” the lawsuit states. “Did an acquaintance of defendant Shooter give him up? There is no video. Did defendant Frain’s hard-working and well-trained employees adequately monitor GXC’s instruments that missed the gun? There is no video.”
The State Fair of Texas, the lawsuit argues, did not have video surveillance to monitor staff for corruption, burnout or inattention, or to confirm that the failure was related to the equipment and not the staff.
One of the victims who filed the lawsuit, Andrea Araujo, still has the bullets inside her that were allegedly fired by Turner, the lawsuit claims, as surgeons cannot safely remove them.
“What did Plaintiff Araujo do to deserve the fear of losing her life and a lifetime of pain and a permanently damaged body? Her job,” the lawsuit states. “She was keeping the State Fair clean for the rest of us. When the bullets hit her in the back, she fell to the ground, dropped her broom and prayed she wouldn’t die before she could say goodbye to her husband. she.”
The lawsuit accuses Andy Frain Services and GXC of negligence and failing to create and enforce policies and procedures and accuses Turner of assault. It seeks compensation for Araujo for the mental anguish, physical pain, medical expenses, loss of income, emotional distress and physical deterioration that he has suffered and will continue to suffer.
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