One of the involved families of the victims at the Jewish Community Center allegedly filed a lawsuit against Walmart and another involved gun dealer. Simple enough, the family aims to have the authorities look into the prohibition of guns from the hands of felons.
According to Lexis Legal News, Jim LaManno and his children are officially accusing Walmart and a gun dealer of supposed negligence that resulted to shootouts. Initially, Walmart employees and a gun seller should not have sold high-power shotguns to a felon, in which the main point of the lawsuit states that the guns sold were eventually used for three counts of murder, all of which are at the Overland Park Jewish Centers.
Legal Reader noted that the lawsuit points towards the gunman Frazier Glenn Cross, whom upon confirming, was a convicted felon and by law, not legally permitted to buy guns at all. However, it was in October 2013 when the lawsuit affirmed Cross and one other man identified in the suit managed to purchase two shotguns. In specification, one of the guns was bought at a Springfield gun show from Friendly Firearms while the other at Lawrence County Walmart.
As per Fox 4KC, John Reidle, as the lawsuit dictates, was somewhat a "straw man", though Cross was the actual purchaser in which the employees who sold the firearms should have been aware of. In relation to the issue, Lou Accurso of Accurso Law Firm spoke on the matter.
Accurso said that the scenario happens more often than what is made known to the public. There are some laws and standard procedures that were admittedly set aside, and the tragedy was one example of such defiance.
The lawsuit defined, "the remarks and behavior of Reidle and Miller were such that Friendly and Friendly's employees knew, had reason to know, or recklessly failed to know that Reidle and Miller would use a firearm in a manner involving unreasonable risk of harm to others whom Friendly and Friendly's employees should expect to share in or be endangered by Reidle's or Miller's possession of a firearm."
The weapons were then given to Cross, which was eventually used at the Jewish Community Center and Village Shalom. He targeted and shot down Terry LaManno, William Corporon, and Reat Underwood.
The lawsuit talks of unspecified damages. The LaManno family also hopes that their message gets through strongly.
