Thread: N.C. - MAN CHARGED IN HILLSBOROUGH CHILD'S DEATH WAS IN COUNTRY ILLEGALLY, ICE SAYS

Young, the attorney representing Suarez, said his client is “a really awesome person.”

“He has an incredible family and support system,” he said.

No one who enters the US illegally is a "really awesome person".

Originally Posted by Judy

No one who enters the US illegally is a "really awesome person".

Suarez is an illegal alien criminal that should have never been in our nation and he has an obvious lack of respect for our laws, borders, and basic health and safety concerns all which culminated in this little boy's death.

This crime was 100% preventable if this illegal alien had been kept out of America or deported earlier when he was caught drinking and driving.

I hope the parents sue the company that hired this illegal immigrant out of business!

W

Posted 3:57 p.m. yesterday
Updated 4:28 p.m. yesterday

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — The family of a 5-year-old Hillsborough boy who was struck and killed by a truck that rolled away from a construction site on Dec. 26 filed a lawsuit Monday in Orange County Superior Court against the companies involved in the building project.

Everett Copeland was playing outside with three other children when he was struck and killed by the truck, which rolled unmanned away from a construction site at the top of a hill on Dogwood Bloom Lane in the Forest Ridge subdivision.

The truck had been left unattended and running in neutral with the brake not properly set while parked on a steep slope as it was being loaded with dirt, the suit says. According to the suit, worker Alejandro Suarez had no experience in operating trucks and did not have a driver’s license.

Suarez, 28, of Harnett County, was charged with misdemeanor death by vehicle and has been in the Orange County jail since his arrest. He could face deportation because he is in the United States illegally, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and has two previous moving violations.

Hillsborough police said Suarez was working for Kala Contracting, based in Apex, at the time of the incident.

“This man was unqualified and untrained to safely operate this truck, and his employers knew that and should never have allowed an unoccupied truck to be loaded so unsafely,” said David Kirby, a lawyer for the Copeland family. “This was an entirely preventable tragedy.”

The suit names Suarez, Kala Contracting and Amward Homes of N.C., the general contractor for the project and owner of the property, among its defendants.

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