Philadelphia Personal Injury Attorney Blog | Pomerantz Perlberger & Lewis LLP

A lawsuit has been filed against a gun shop that sold a killer his gun alleging that the sale was illegal. Carolyn Tuft, an injured survivor of gunman Sulejman Talovic’s shooting spree at a Utah mall last year, has filed a lawsuit seeking unspecified damages for her own injuries and the death of her fifteen-year-old daughter, Kirsten Hinckley.

The lawsuit names Rocky Mountain Enterprises, Inc., a Nevada corporation doing business as Sportsman’s Fast Cash. Licensed firearms dealer, Westley Hill sold the shooter a shotgun on November 13, 2006. Hill has pleaded guilty to failing to indicate on a form whether Talovic showed a second form of identification, required because he is an illegal alien from Bosnia. Hill was sentenced to a year on probation and a $500.00 fine.

Talovic killed Hinckley and four others and wounded Tuft and three others before he was fatally shot by police on the February 12, 2007 shooting in Salt Lake City.

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