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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) – The shooting deaths of two teenagers in a Maryland parking lot are not the fault of the property’s owner.
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled that way on Jan. 28 in a lawsuit over a 2016 shooting in Capitol Heights. The crime is unsolved, and the parents of two teenagers who died have lost their effort to seek damages from property owner Regency Lane LLC.
The lawsuit says Regency failed to provide adequate security measures and failed to protect tenants and their guests from foreseeable criminal activity.
And though Regency does have a duty to protect tenants from foreseeable criminal activity, the court ruled, the parents failed to show any failure on Regency’s part caused the deaths of Brian Davis and Todd Webb, Jr. In fact, the shooter remains unknown.