While acknowledging the tragedy of the shooting of a Los Angeles County Fire Department engineer by a colleague at the Agua Dulce station in 2021, a lawyer for the county says in new court papers that her client does not have liability due to governmental immunity and workers' compensation rules.
On Friday, a wrongful death suit was filed by the widow and family of Tory Carlon, the Los Angeles County firefighter specialist shot and killed in the Fire Station 81 shooting in Agua Dulce.
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"Although [Jonathan Patrick] Tatone pulled the trigger, it was the Los Angeles County Fire Department leadership's ratification of Tatone's years of dangerous conduct that was the substantial factor in the death of [Tory] Carlon," the suit alleges.
The widow and three children of a Los Angeles County Fire Department engineer who was slain by a colleague at the Agua Dulce station sued Los Angeles County and the killer's estate today for wrongful death.