Local News in Brief : Quake Victim Family Sues
A $10-million lawsuit has been filed against the state by the parents and sister of a student killed when a concrete slab fell on her at Cal State Los Angeles during the Oct. 1 earthquake.
Leonardo and Olympia Elias of San Gabriel allege that the state allowed unsafe conditions to exist at the campus, resulting in the death of their 21-year-old daughter, Lupe Elias-Exposito.
Elias-Exposito, a pre-med honor student, was walking on campus with her younger sister Rosie when the slab tumbled three stories from a parking garage and hit her. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, said that only after the accident did the university appropriately attach the huge concrete panels to the walls with bolts.
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