A woman who says she was attacked by a homeless man and woman while leaving a Jewel Food Store is suing the store and her attackers.
Jennifer Hall says that while she and her fiance were leaving the Jewel store at 1224 S. Wabash Ave. on Aug. 25, 2008, her 36th birthday, she was approached by Derrick King and Joyce Burgess.
The two requested a cigarette and when Hall denied them, she was physically attacked — losing most of her teeth and ending up with 85 staples in her head.
The complaint states that “homeless persons and others were known to loiter outside the [store], commonly congregating on the wall along the sidewalk.”
The complaint further states that Jewel was negligent when it, among other things, “improperly permitted homeless persons and others to loiter on said premises when they knew or should have known that such persons had a violent propensity,” and “that such persons posed a risk to persons lawfully on said premises.”
Read more and look at the lawsuit at Chicago Bar-Tender.
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