At the plaintiff\u2019s request, a judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Los Angeles City and County by the father of a good Samaritan who died after being stabbed while trying to break up a fight at the Nickerson Gardens public housing development in 2023.<\/p>\n
David May alleged in his Compton Superior Court complaint that police and sheriff\u2019s deputies prevented his late son Jesse Ryan, May\u2019s girlfriend and a woman with nursing training from rendering aid to him. On Sept. 5, at May\u2019s asking, Judge Elizabeth L. Bradley dismissed the complaint \u201cwithout prejudice,\u201d meaning it can be refiled later. The court papers did not give any reason for David May\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit had alleged wrongful death, civil rights violations and negligence.<\/p>\n
Nickerson Gardens is located within the Los Angeles city limits. According to the suit, Jesse May was staying with his girlfriend at a Nickerson apartment on April 19, 2023, when at about 1 a.m. he heard sounds from an altercation in the parking lot. He went outside and saw a fight between two women and a man and when he tried to intervene to stop the combatants, he was stabbed in the left leg, the suit stated.<\/p>\n
Sheriff\u2019s deputies and LAPD officers responded and although Jesse May was bleeding extensively from his leg, both a female acquaintance with a nursing background and later Jesse May\u2019s girlfriend were prevented by officers and deputies from giving him aid, according to the suit, which additionally alleges that the law enforcement personnel also did not render him assistance.<\/p>\n
Jesse May was in full cardiac arrest upon his arrival at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood and died less than an hour after the stabbing, according to the suit.<\/p>\n
The conduct of the LAPD officers and the deputies fell below the standards of those in their profession and David May has suffered severe emotional distress and has had to pay for funeral and burial expenses for his son, the suit stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the plaintiff\u2019s request, a judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Los Angeles City and County by…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2451,4446,120445,28762,6276,2961,66891,224,5337,120446,27754],"class_list":{"0":"post-221372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-city","11":"tag-death","12":"tag-dismissed","13":"tag-fathers","14":"tag-l-a","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-laco","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-sons","20":"tag-suit"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115192411417293035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}