Widow of Chad Read files wrongful death suit against Kyle Carruth, judge files recusal
The widow of a Lubbock father shot and killed during an argument over custody of his son is seeking $50 million in damages from the shooter, land developer Kyle Carruth.
Jennifer Read on Monday filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing Carruth, the ex-husband of 72nd District Judge Anne Marie Carruth, of engaging in negligence and gross negligence, civil assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress, when he shot Chad Read on Nov. 5, at Carruth's property in the 2100 block of 90th Street.
"Defendants owed Chad Read a reasonable duty of care to act as a reasonably prudent person would act under the circumstances," the lawsuit states.
Jennifer Read's attorney, Anthony Buzbee of the Buzbee Law Firm in Houston, said in a statement, “Every Texan has the right to defend themselves and their property—no one, however, has the right to interject themselves into someone else’s conversation, return and bring a gun to an otherwise nonviolent argument, escalate the argument to violence, creating a violent situation, and then shoot and kill an unarmed man.”
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