Wrongful demise lawsuit filed against Vallejo City Unified School District

The loved ones of Kevon DeLeon has filed a wrongful loss of life lawsuit in opposition to the Vallejo Town Unified College District, expressing the 17-calendar year-old died in September of 2021 owing to negligence from the district team.

According to the lawsuit, DeLeon, who endured from epilepsy, encephalopathy, diminished government performing and adjustment ailment with disturbant emotion, commenced to wander off campus from Everest Academy all through faculty several hours right before struggling numerous seizures that went unnoticed and caused his loss of life two days later.

The lawsuit, which has not been served to the university district but, states that DeLeon was picked up by a excellent Samaritan and healthcare staff was named after DeLeon was discovered unresponsive in close proximity to Benicia Road and Lemon Street, two miles from the academy. DeLeon was taken to Kaiser Permanente Health-related Center and at some point grew to become responsive several hours later.

The lawsuit was filed by numerous legal professionals, together with Bryan Harrison and Brian Panish, part of a victorious authorized crew in a 1993 multi-billion dollar fit versus General Motors for a defective gas process. Legal professionals are operating on behalf of the DeLeon relatives and authorized guardian, Reauchean DeLeon-Watson, Kevon’s grandmother, as very well as Kevon’s father, Alexander De Leon, who is also a specific demands man or woman. The mom passed away in December 2015.

“This must have by no means took place. Under no circumstance was Kevon to at any time leave school unattended,” explained DeLeon-Watson. “That was normally the biggest anxiety with him. We wanted folks to search out for him as he was known to have seizures at faculty a lot. The school’s initially precedence must have been Kevon.”

Harrison claimed that Kevon was meant to be supervised all the way to the bus soon after university hrs ended.

“Not only are they to make confident he will get on the college bus, but also make absolutely sure his seat belt is on,” Harrison claimed Thursday night. “So how is a youngster in a position to go away the college and not go discovered for that long? As a son of a instructor that worked in the college district for several a long time at Jesse Bethel, this hits house. When is the Vallejo Metropolis Unified Faculty District going to get its act alongside one another?”

The spouse and children is suing for carelessness, carelessness selecting/retention/supervision/schooling and survival motion. Harrison said the file went out Thursday, and there is no timetable nevertheless as to when the scenario could go to demo.

DeLeon-Watson mentioned Kevon, who cherished singing, artwork, dancing and gymnastics, was looking ahead to graduating in December of 2021. DeLeon-Watson suggests Kevon was “a loving and outgoing person” who was on the lookout ahead to faculty.

“My target with this lawsuit is to make certain this never ever takes place all over again to anyone,” DeLeon-Watson said. “Kevon should have had a for a longer period, greater life. He experienced dreams and aims that he’ll by no means be able to do now and satisfy.”