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GOVEA v. CITY OF NORCROSS

Nos. A04A0956, A04A0957.

608 S.E.2d 677 (2004)

271 Ga. App. 36

GOVEA et al. v. CITY OF NORCROSS et al. City of Chamblee v. Govea et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied December 15, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Eidson, Timothy Brennan, Eidson & Associates, P.C., Atlanta, for Govea et al.

James Westbury, Andrew Whalen III, Mullins, Whalen & Westbury Griffin, Peter Boyce, Catherine Packwood, Peter F. Boyce, P.C., Duluth, for City of Norcross.

Carothers & Mitchell, Richard A. Carothers, Thomas M. Mitchell, Buford, William M. Coolidge III, for City of Chamblee.

PHIPPS, Judge.

On August 11, 2001, 13-year-old Jairo Govea Gomez fatally shot himself with a police service weapon that had been handed to him by Timothy Heiberger, a police officer with the police department of the City of Chamblee ("Chamblee") and a former police officer with the police department of the City of Norcross ("Norcross"). Jairo's parents, David Govea and Teresa Gomez, filed a wrongful death action against Chamblee and Norcross.1

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