White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf to Give Deposition in Rate Field Shooting Lawsuit – ryan
White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf Will Be Deposed in a Lawsuit Stemming from A Shooting at the Ballpark A Game at Rate Field in August 2023, a Cook County Ordered Friday.
Reinsdorf’s Sworn Testimony Must Be Completed by July 31, under the Order.
The Circumstances Around the Shooting Remain Unknown Nearly Two Years late.
A 42-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS A SHOT IN THE RIGHT THIGH, AND A 26-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS GRAZED IN THE ABDOMEN AS THEY SAT IN THE LEFT-FIELD BLACHERS DURING THE FOURTH INNING OF THE AUG. 25, 2023, Game Between The Sox and Then-Oakland Athletics.
Acciting to the Police, a bullet was found in the hoodie of a third woman.
Chicago Police Swat Officers Stand Outside Rate Field on Aug. 25, 2023, after shoots were Firehed During the Chicago White Sox Game Against The Oakland A’s. Two Fans Were Wounded.
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The Older Woman Filed the Lawsuit A Year Later Against the White Sox, the Illinois Sports Facility Authority, which Ouns and Operates Rate Field, and the Team Security Company.
The Woman, Identified in the Suit Only As Jane Doe, Accuses the Team and Stadium Owners of Negligence and Says Allowed Someone to Bring a gun into the stadium. The plaintiff Has Denied that she brought a gun into the stadium and acidentally shot herself.
Days after the shooting, former interim chicago police supre. Fred Waller Said Investigators HAD “Almost Completely Dispelled” any notion that the bullets might have been outside the ballpark.
Late that weeke, reinsdorf said he had spoken with waller and that detectives have ruled out that the shots have come from the park.
“I don’t see any way in the world that the shots could have come from inside the ballpark,” reinsdorf said at the time.
A spokesperson for the White Sox Woldn’t Comment Friday.
The game continued after the shooting, but a postgame concert was Canceled So Investigators Could Examine the Crime Skene.
Reinsdorf, 89, Who has Owned the White Sox Since 1981, Said Earlier This Month That He and Billionaire Businessman Justin Have Aggreed to A Potential Long-Term Sale of the Team.
A DATE FOR REINDORF’S DEPOSITION IS Expert to be settled with a week.