The widower of the 73-year-old lady who was killed in a lethal carjacking final yr in New Orleans, is suing the dad and mom of the youngsters chargeable for the sufferer’s loss of life.
Linda Frickey was killed throughout a March 2022 carjacking after 4 youngsters dragged the girl behind her personal automobile, severing her arm. An 18-year-old man was convicted of second-degree homicide and three women aged 15 to 17 pleaded responsible to manslaughter in reference to the deadly carjacking.
The youngsters sped away with Ms. Frickey within the automobile, trapped by her seatbelt, till one in all her arms was severed. She succumbed to her accidents a short while later.
NEW ORLEANS TEENS PLEAD GUILTY IN CARJACKING, DRAGGING DEATH OF WOMAN, GET 20 YEARS
A set of flowers and a cross with a halo are seen on the location the place the physique of Linda Frickey was recovered after she was carjacked and dragged to her loss of life in New Orleans. (AP)
Now, Rickey Frickey is in search of $50,000 in damages for his spouse’s brutal loss of life, lack of revenue and emotional misery, in line with The Occasions-Picayune.
Mr. Frickey’s sister, Kathy Richard, informed nola.com that her brother is planning to file the civil lawsuit towards the dad and mom to indicate that folks have accountability over their kids and to “bring awareness to the public that if your children commit crimes, you are liable.”
The lawsuit was initially introduced in March however was delayed till after the legal case of the kids concluded. The ultimate conviction among the many youngsters, 18-year-old John Honore, was handed down earlier this week, and will withstand life in jail after he’s sentenced in January. The three women — Briniyah Baker, Lenyra Theophile and Mar’Qel Curtis — pleaded responsible final week and have been sentenced to twenty years in jail.
NEW ORLEANS-AREA WOMAN, 73, DRAGGED TO DEATH DURING CARJACKING, FOUR TEENS ARRESTED, COPS SAY
4 youngsters who have been chargeable for the carjacking loss of life of 73-year-old Linda Frickey. (New Orleans Police Division)
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The sufferer was dragged greater than 200 yards throughout the violent carjacking by which a sufferer recalled on the witness stand in Honore’s trial that Mrs. Frickey was “skinned alive” and “tortured,” in line with WVUE. The prosecution stated video proof exhibits Honore finishing up the vicious killing at the same time as Mrs. Frickey, tethered by a seatbelt, pleaded for her life.
“The defendant, after pepper spraying her, grabs her, pulls her out of her car, puts heel to her face, stomps her on the head, gets on top, punches her, gets into the driver seat and you will see decisions made that ended Frickey’s life,” prosecutors stated throughout the trial. “She was screaming and pleading for him to stop. [The defendant] dragged her over 700 feet – or two football fields.”
