The family of a security guard who was fatally shot at a hospital in Portland, Oregon, has sued the facility for $35 million. In a wrongful death complaint filed Tuesday, the family of Bobby Smallwood accused Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center of negligence.
FILE - Portland Police respond to a shooting at the Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center in Portland , Ore., July 22, 2023. , Oregon , sued the facility for $35 million on Tuesday, accusing it of negligence and failing to respond to the dangers that the gunman posed to hospital staff over multiple days.
“The repeated failures of Legacy Good Samaritan to follow their own safety protocols directly led to the tragically preventable death of Bobby Smallwood,” Tom D’Amore, the attorney representing the family, said in a statement. “Despite documented threats and abusive behavior that required immediate removal under hospital policy, Legacy allowed a dangerous individual to remain on the premises for three days until those threats escalated to violence.
On July 22, nurse supervisors decided to remove Calles from his partner’s room, and Smallwood accompanied him to the waiting room area outside the maternity ward. Other security guards searching the room found two loaded firearms in a duffel bag, and his partner told them he likely had a third gun on his person, the complaint said.
The hospital did not call a “code silver,” the emergency code for an active shooter, until after Smallwood had been shot, the complaint said.“Every day we grieve the loss of our son and all the years ahead that should have been his to live,” his parents, Walter “Bob” and Tammy Smallwood, said in the statement released by their attorney. “Nothing can bring Bobby back, but we will not stop fighting until Legacy is held fully responsible for what they took from our family.
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