“(Jonathan Patrick) Tatone was an open wound in Fire Station 81, left to fester and infect for years by Los Angeles County Fire Department leadership,” the family’s court papers s…
CHATSWORTH — The widow and children of a Los Angeles County Fire Department engineer shot to death by a colleague at the Agua Dulce station in 2021 have responded to a motion by county attorneys to dismiss their case, saying in new court papers that the county and the department were on notice for years of the killer’s violent behavior.
Tatone left for his Acton residence, which he set afire before shooting himself to death. The Carlon family suit names as defendants the county and the estate of Tatone. In her previously filed court papers seeking dismissal of the case, defense attorney Mira Hashmall argues that the county does not have liability due to governmental immunity and workers’ compensation rules.
While at Fire Station 81, Tatone “demonstrated behavior as a loner, as well as an aggressive, angry, irrational, violent individual could not socially adjust with the other firefighers,” the Carlon family attorney state in their court papers. “Tatone needed an outlet for his anger, and it was Carlon.”
“Carlon was so afraid of Tatone that he stopped using the community refrigerator at the fire station and drinking coffee from the community coffee pot out of fear that Tatone would poison his food,” the Carlon family lawyers further state in their court papers.
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