Four boys one night in 2017 hurled a sandbag weighing at least 30 pounds over the side of an I-75 overpass in Toledo, killing a 22-year-old passenger in a car traveling below on the road.
The minors, all 13 or 14 years old, were convicted of murder or manslaughter. But the mother of Marquise Byrd has sought to place the blame on the bridge builders and the state of Ohio, arguing that both parties failed to install the cage-like, anti-vandalism fencing over the partially closed bridge that’s required on almost every fully built structure in the state.
Federal courts rejected the family’s lawsuit against Kokosing because the Ohio Department of Transportation approved the plans. On Tuesday, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled 6-1 that ODOT can’t be held liable either…