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Parents of former Richmonder file $10.35 million lawsuit over his boating death in Lancaster, allege
Parents of former Richmonder file $10.35 million lawsuit over his boating death in Lancaster, allege cover-up attemptFamily members filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking $10.35 million in connection with the death of their son, a former Richmond resident who authorities said was killed in a Lancaster County boating accident.
The parents of Graham McCormick, who was 31 when he died in August, filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Richmond Circuit Court.
The first defendant named in the lawsuit is 31-year-old John Randolph Hooper, a Richmond man known as Rand Hooper who is facing a misdemeanor charge in Lancaster of failing to promptly report the Aug. 11 boating accident in Carter Creek.
Hooper’s parents, Gary Lee Hooper and Lucy W. Hooper, are also named as defendants in the civil lawsuit brought by McCormick’s parents, J. Burke McCormick and Sallie T. Graham, in their role as administrators of his estate.
Read more: http://www.richmond.com/news/local/crime/parents-of-former-richmonder-file-million-lawsuit-over-his-boating/article_a949e72f-9433-5dbf-85dd-17f5a2345ede.html
