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Mother Sues Chicago Board of Education for Illinois Wrongful Death

In Illinois, the mother or 18-year-old Ruben Ivy is suing the Chicago Board of Education for wrongful death. Ivy, a high school Jr., was killed on March 2008 during a shooting outside Crane High School.

In her Chicago wrongful death lawsuit, Emily Green says the city?s board of education ?voluntarily undertook? a system to keep guns off the school premises and that that system did not work. She also accuses the board of knowing that weapons, including the gun that was used to murder her son, were being brought onto the school campus.She is seeking over $50,000 in wrongful death damages.

Ivy?s slaying was gang-related and involved another boy approaching him and shooting him in the chest. Witnesses at the school have identified Ivy?s murderer as 15-year-old Devonte Smith.

Smith was arrested and charged as an adult for first degree murder in Ivy?s shooting death. Another 15-year-old was critically injured during the same altercation when he was beaten with a golf club.

Green, a former Crane High School student, says she was also shot during a gang altercation when she was studying there.

Schools, daycare centers, summer camps, and other institutions and organizations in charge of supervising children are required to exercise a duty of care to make sure that kids are not injured or hurt while under their watch. Failure to exercise that duty of care can be grounds for an Illinois premises liability caseor a wrongful death lawsuit.

Reasons why a parent might decide to sue a school for personal injury to a son or daughter:

? Violent crimes
? Sexual assault
? Inadequate security
? Defective playground equipment
? Carbon monoxide exposure
? Food poisoning from contaminated foods
? Hazardous conditions on the premise that could cause serious injury

Mom sues Board of Ed after son killed outside Crane High School, Chicago Sun Times, March 10, 2009

Family sues CPS Board of Ed, ABC Local, March 10, 2009

Teen charged with murder in Crane shooting, ABC Local, March 9, 2008

Student fatally shot near West Side school, ABC Local, March 7, 2008

Related Web Resource:
Chicago Board of Education

Full post as published by Chicago Injury Attorney Blog on March 11, 2009 (boomark / email).