The family of Gavin Knupp, a 14-year-old killed in a hit-and-run accident in 2022, has filed a civil suit against several named co-defendants, including Tyler Mailloux, two of his family members, and his former employer.
On June 25, Tiffany and Ray Knupp and their daughter, Summer Knupp, filed suit in Worcester County Circuit Court against Mailloux, the Berlin man serving 18 months for a traffic offense in Knupp’s death, his mother, Kearston Fray, his stepfather, Ralph DeAngelus, his employer, Matt Ortt Companies and the Ocean Pines Association, which has a working relationship with the company.
The suit seeks damages on all 16 counts, which includes negligence, wrongful death, negligent entrustment and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
“This lawsuit is the next step in holding accountable all those responsible for Gavin’s death,” Neil Dubovsky, the Knupp family’s attorney, said in a statement this week. “Beyond that we will have no comment while litigation is ongoing.”
The 40-page lawsuit details the events that occurred the night of July 11, 2022, when Knupp was struck and killed by a motorist on Grays Corner Road, as well as the days that followed.
Specifically, the suit claims Mailloux, as the driver of the black Mercedes involved in the accident, “made no attempts to stop and/or render aid to Gavin Knupp, failed to provide his insurance information to Gavin or Summer Knupp, never returned to the scene, and failed to report to emergency services that he had just struck a pedestrian.”
I felt like the criminal trial was a joke, and I can’t imagine how the family hasn’t completely lost it by now. As for the civil suit, I hope it is made as financially painful as possible. ‘Ole Ralphy and this kid’s mom need to be reduced to nothing because of their actions.
More charges should be brought forth against mailloux’s co-conspirators.
I hope she wins the civil trial and takes them to the cleaners!
The family should be in jail just for withholding evidence by hiding the hit and run car.
I hope all involve get what is coming to them!