A lawsuit has been filed against entertainment company Live Nation and the Gorge Amphitheater for allegedly failing to enforce policies and take action during a shooting incident at the Beyond Wonderland music festival. The lawsuit claims that the negligence of Live Nation and the venue resulted in the deaths of Josilyn Ruiz and Brandy Escamilla.
Josilyn Ruiz and Brandy Escamilla were attending Beyond Wonderland , an electronic dance music festival , at the Gorge Amphitheater when U.S. Army Spc James Kelly allegedly started firing, killing them in the camping area., the lawsuit claims entertainment company Live Nation did not enforce its policies of banning guns and illegal drugs at the venue. It also alleges the venue did not take action when Kelly started to act erratically.
He is also accused of shooting his girlfriend twice, another person attending the festival and an employee. “Live Nation has the means and the duty to make sure security is the highest priority for their concert patrons,” the two families said in a statement to the Seattle Times. “Never should someone’s life be taken so senselessly and tragically at a music event.”
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