The family of Kevon DeLeon settle with Vallejo City Unified School District in lawsuit concerning his untimely death in 2021.
The family of Kevon DeLeon settled its case with the Vallejo City Unified School District after the teenager’s death in 2021 from a seizure when he was allowed to wander away from his supervised special needs program at Everest Academy.According to the lawsuit filed by multiple lawyers — including Bryan Harrison of Harrison, Kristopher, LLP — DeLeon suffered from epilepsy, encephalopathy, diminished executive functioning and adjustment disorder with disturbant emotion.
“Notwithstanding the settlement, it is still the wish of the family that the district’s procedures and policies for the care of all the children be examined so that other parents’ nightmares do not become reality,” the statement reads. “With this case it was a sense of a call to duty,” Harrison said. “Vallejo deserves more, the students deserve more and the parents deserve more.”
“My team and I worked diligently to uncover the truth and obtain justice for the family who had loved and raised Kevon, but I also wanted to help my hometown,” Harrison continued. “It is my sincere hope that this legal process has opened the eyes of the administrators and staff of VCUSD to the shortcomings of their procedures and that changes will be made to the benefit of all the children of Vallejo and the parents and families who love them.
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