Eris Fisher, a 27-year-old father of three, died in shooting at Motel 6 on Chamblee-Tucker Road, in a shooting his family believes could've been prevented.
His widow, Maryanne Crawford, has filed suit in DeKalb County State Court alleging that management should’ve provided adequate security for guests of the hotel. The suit says, in the four years before the November 2017 death, there’d been 1,500 crimes reported at and in the area around the hotel.
Subhash Patel, the registered agent of the motel’s parent company Radheshvar, LLC, said Monday he couldn’t comment on the pending case.
The hotel is near Spaghetti Junction, the convergence of I-285 and I-85 north of Atlanta, an area that has been redeveloping in the past few years but still faces shuttered, dilapidated properties and aging apartment complexes.
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The suit says the previous four years had seen robberies, assaults, homicide, rape and larceny.
Few details have been released in Fisher’s death. Police have only said he died during an argument. Kaylon Janard Jiles and acquaintance Traquan Alexander McCleod have been indicted with murder.
The suit asks for damages in an amount to be determined in court.
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