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Shopping Center Manager Seeks Exit From Wrongful Death Lawsuit – MyNewsLA.com

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Shopping Center Manager Seeks Exit From Wrongful Death Lawsuit – MyNewsLA.com

The manager of a South Los Angeles shopping center where a 27-year-old man was fatally shot after picking up food in what is still an unsolved crime is asking a judge to dismiss him as a defendant in the family’s wrongful death/negligence lawsuit.

Nicole Williams brought the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit on behalf of herself and her grandson, who was 7 years old when his father, Antonio Maurice Wilson Williams, was killed in 2017. Charles Peter Scurich managed the Vermont Square commercial center at 43rd Street and Vermont Avenue at the time, the suit states. The boy is now 13 years old.

“Plaintiffs have no evidence and cannot establish that Scurich participated in or engaged in any individual activities giving rise to any conduct which contributed to or resulted in decedent’s death,” the defense attorneys argue in their court papers filed Friday with Judge Lee Arian in advance of a hearing scheduled May 9, 2025.

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