Four of the five people who were shot last week at the Oakwood Terrace Apartments in Pensacola have filed a lawsuit against the apartment complex’s federally-funded operating and management companies, seeking approximately $10 million in damages.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday evening by The Witherspoon Law Group on behalf of Tony Jefferson, Timothy Beck, Jerkavia Morgan and Ladaryl Purifoy, who were each shot during an April 15 shooting at Oakwood Terrace Apartments.
The lawsuit claims the company that operates Oakwood Terrace the DM Oakwood Terrace LLC and Oakwood Terrace’s parenting-management company Marquis Asset Management Inc. neglected to provide proper security measures that could have prevented the shooting that hospitalized five people.
Enough is not being done to curb violence and protect residents of the Oakwood Terrace Apartments, Escambia County activists, church leaders and officials argue, and they are calling on the complex s owners to do their part to solve the problem.
That starts with investing some of the company s profits back into the people who live in the apartments, said Escambia County District 3 Commissioner Lumon May.
May was part of a group that also included Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons, Interim Pensacola Police Department Chief Kevin Christman, multiple pastors and a handful of local activists who met with Cecilia Cossio, president of Marquis Asset Management Inc., who traveled to Pensacola from her company s headquarters in Dallas, Texas.
April 16, 2021
Six people were shot at an Escambia County apartment complex Thursday evening.
About 6 p.m., a dark colored vehicle pulled into the Oakwood Terrace Apartments complex at 700 Truman Avenue and several people opened fire.
“A group of people exited that vehicle and just started opening fire. We estimated at least a dozen rounds have been fired,” said Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons. “They were shooting indiscriminately into a group of people.”
Five people were taken to Baptist and Sacred Heart hospital. One other person suffered minor injuries.
As of late Thursday night, no arrests had been reported.
Pictured: Law enforcement at the Oak Terrace Apartments complex on Truman Avenue Thursday evening after six people were shot. Photos courtesy WEAR 3 for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Six people were shot at about 6 p.m. Thursday at the Oakwood Terrace Apartments on Truman Avenue after a vehicle pulled up in front of a building at the complex and the people inside opened fire on the crowd, according to authorities. A dark colored vehicle pulled up in front of the apartment complex s Building P Escambia County Sheriff s Office spokeswoman Amber Southard told the News Journal on Thursday night. Multiple men then got out of the vehicle and fired into the crowd standing in front of Building P.
Five victims were transported local hospitals. A sixth victim refused medical treatment on scene because his injury was relatively minor.
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