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Hundreds gathered in Cushing Square in Belmont for a vigil to honor the memory of Henry Tapia, the day after he had an altercation with a man who called him a racial slur and then drove over him, ultimately killing Tapia. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
The family of Henry Tapia has filed a wrongful death civil suit against the man accused of shouting racial slurs before fatally running over Tapia with his car in Belmont.
Law firm Morgan & Morgan, representing the Tapia family, announced the complaint Wednesday.
Tapia and Dean Kapsalis, a white man, got into a verbal road rage altercation on Jan. 19. According to law enforcement and witnesses, when Tapia walked back to his car, Kapsalis called him the N-word, got in his truck and ran him over. Kapsalis turned himself in to police about a half an hour later.