On the third anniversary of their son?s death, the parents of a man who was beaten to death in an East Side park filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against Dane County and the Dane County 911 center, alleging that their son might have been saved if dispatchers had sent police to the park in response to earlier calls from a neighbor.
….This is the second lawsuit against the 911 center in about three years. The parents of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann sued the center and the county for allegedly mishandling a 911 call from Zimmermann’s phone shortly before she died in April 2008. The lawsuit was settled for a $5,000 contribution to a fund to help find Zimmermann’s killer and $2,500 to cover some lawyer fees.