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Shooting victim sues former employer, BJ's Wholesale Club
Posted on Apr 23, 2008
A woman who was shot and wounded by her estranged husband after he killed her sister has filed a lawsuit against the BJ's Wholesale Club where the crimes happened in April 2006.
The lawsuit, filed by Karen Phillips in Norfolk Circuit Court in March, seeks $65 million.
Karen Phillips had been given permission to come in late that day so she could talk to her divorce lawyer and was unaware of her husband's earlier phone calls and visit to the store, said attorney C. Arthur "Brother" Rutter III, who filed the lawsuit on her behalf.
"Do you know what they did when she showed up?" Rutter said Tuesday. "They didn't even tell her."
Rutter says in the lawsuit that BJ's "had a duty to warn their employee, and to take precautions to protect her."
Rutter said Karen Phillips raised her right hand to ward off the shotgun blast. Doctors had to amputate that hand, Rutter said. The blast also hit her face and neck, and the impact caused her to have a stroke that left her paralyzed on her left side.
The case is scheduled for a hearing in May.
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