Legal suits have been filed in the case of the couple who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a Boone motel. The family of the Washington state couple is suing the property's owners, a contractor who worked on a faulty pool heater and others.
Lawyers for the family of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins of Longview, Washington, said Tuesday a series of equipment failures and human errors caused their deaths.
The lawsuit filed Monday in Mecklenburg County state court names motel chain Best Western International, its local franchisee in Boone, a company accused of botching the pool heater's conversion to natural gas, and a heating contractor that failed to correct problems with venting the heater's exhaust gases.
Eleven-year-old Jeffrey Williams of Rock Hill, South Carolina, died in the same motel room about a month after the Jenkinses in 2013.
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