EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The couple who lost their two young children to the flash flooding in Ruidoso last year, say they will be filing a lawsuit to make a change not just for the Village, but for children who lost their lives to other natural disasters.
“Making change, not just for the community of Ruidoso, but for everywhere, right? You imagine four days prior to our flood, you had the flood in Central Texas. You had a lot of things going on at that time, where a lot of you know, of adolescent kids lost their lives,” Sebastian Trotter, father of the 7-year-old Sebastian Trotter and 4-year-old Charlotte Trotter who died in the flooding, said.
KTSM 9 News spoke with Sebastian and Stephanie, and their lawyer, Brian Kennedy, on Thursday, March 5. They tell KTSM they will file a lawsuit against the Village of Ruidoso, Mayor Lynn Crawford and River View RV Park.
The couple said that since the death of their children, Crawford has never reached out to the family. In contrast, they have said that El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson has been in constant communication with the Trotters…