Teen's family files $100 million suit over bus death
HARLINGEN — The family of a Harlingen middle school student killed one year ago after falling from a bus emergency door on a school field trip in Hidalgo County has filed a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit.
The suit alleges the death of 13-year-old Gabriel Miranda along I-2/U.S. Expressway 83 in Edinburg resulted from negligence on the part of the Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District, superintendent Arturo Cavazos, teachers A.J. Ayala and Michael J. Carlsted, and bus driver Laura Castro Ruiz.
The Harlingen school district said in a statement issued Tuesday that it does not believe it has any responsibility “for this misfortune.”
Also named as defendants in the lawsuit are the City of Edinburg, the Edinburg Police Department and police chief David Edward White, Edinburg Mayor Richard H. Garcia, Edinburg City Manager Richard M. Hinojosa, Hidalgo County Judge Ramon Garcia and Hidalgo County Coroner Norma Jean Farley.
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