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Complaint cites fraternity, businesses in fatality

By KRISTIN TAYLOR
Staff Writer



PADUCAH, Ky. - The son of the 62-year-old woman killed in a hit-and-run crash nearly a year ago claims in a new civil complaint that Harrison Yonts, Murray State's Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and Nick's Family Sports Pub are responsible for his mother's death.

On behalf of Nadia Shaheen's estate, Abdalla El Bannan's attorneys filed the wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court. El Bannan, who is represented by Paducah attorney Jonathan Freed, Murray attorney Rick Lamkin and Birmingham, Mich., attorney Shereef Akeel, is seeking more than $75,000 in damages.

Yonts, who is now 21 and lives in Greenville, Ky., is accused of driving the vehicle that struck Shaheen, also a student at the time, as she was walking home from the Curris Center computer lab along Coldwater Road near Five Points.

Shaheen, an Egyptian resident who was enrolled in Murray State's Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages program and was in the county on a student visa, died in the early morning hours of Nov. 11, 2005, from injuries sustained during a hit-and-run crash. Her body was discovered a few hours later.

“Yonts recognized the seriousness of Nadia Shaheen's injuries but failed to summon emergency medical help for her,” the complaint says. “Instead, Yonts tried to conceal his wrongful acts and then fled the scene of the crime, leaving Nadia Shaheen to suffer and then die mercilessly.”


Murray Police Department officers arrested Yonts, the son of state Rep. Brent Yonts, for manslaughter the afternoon of the fatal hit-and-run. A grand jury then indicted him on the tougher murder charge as well as the other criminal offenses in January.

The complaint says Yonts, who was 20 at the time, consumed alcoholic beverages at both Nick's Family Sports Pub and at the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house.

Illinois-based Lakee Inc. owns and operates Nick's Family Sports Pub, a Murray restaurant housed in the Shoppes of Murray shopping center that Gary Waller Investments owns. All three entities are specifically named in the wrongful death suit.

For complete story, see today's Ledger & Times