Couple File $10-Million Claim Over Son’s Suicide
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The parents of a teenager who committed suicide in jail while awaiting sentencing for wounding five people in a high school shooting have filed a $10-million claim against the county government.
The parents of Jason Hoffman, 18, say the Sheriff’s Department should have done more to keep their son from killing himself.
He was arrested March 22, 2001, at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon and later pleaded guilty.
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