NATION IN BRIEF : WISCONSIN : Suit in Dahmer Case Allowed to Proceed

The parents of one of Jeffrey L. Dahmer’s victims can proceed with their lawsuit against the city and three police officers, but similar suits were dismissed by a judge. The suit that U.S. District Judge Terence Evans let stand was filed in Milwaukee by Sounghone and Somdy Sinthasomphone, the parents of 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone, who was killed by Dahmer after the three officers led the naked boy back to Dahmer’s apartment May 27. They said they believed he was Dahmer’s lover. Evans said he dismissed lawsuits filed by other victims’ relatives and the man who led police to discover Dahmer because police liability was “too remote.”