It was a particularly heinous crime. A husband and father who ran an East Hartford convenience store was shot to death during a robbery. The man arrested for the killing, Kezlyn Mendez, was sentenced to 55 years behind bars.
But that didn’t end the legal proceedings. The next step was an interesting civil trial accusing the convenience store ownership of negligence in creating conditions that lent themselves to criminal activity. The victim’s family alleged that the property owners failed to maintain adequate exterior lighting to the building and failed to secure the perimeter fence in an alleged “known crime area.”
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