STEPHENS v. CITY OF GULFPORT

No. 2022-CA-01008-COA.

ARQUETTE STEPHENS, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF OF THE HEIRS AND WRONGFUL DEATH BENEFICIARIES OF ANTHONY LEWELLYN, DECEASED, Appellant, v. CITY OF GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI AND HARRISON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

January 30, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ROGEN CHHABRA , KATHRYN CAROLINE BOYD , Attorneys for Appellant.

JEFFREY S. BRUNI , TIM C. HOLLEMAN , Attorneys for Appellees.


¶1. Anthony Lewellyn took his wife, Arquette Stephens, and their children to visit Dedeaux Park (Park) in Gulfport, Mississippi, on a Sunday afternoon. Lewellyn subsequently drowned in the Biloxi River while trying to rescue his sixteen-year-old stepdaughter from the river. The family accessed the river from an area where it...

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