The family of a Marine Corps veteran who had traveled to San Jose to see his granddaughter graduate from college in May is suing the hotel where he was staying after he was found dead and severely scalded in the shower of his hotel room.
77-year-old Terril Johnson had just come to town after driving from Los Angeles on May 22, and was planning to see his granddaughter graduate from San Jose State University the following day. As Bay Area News Group reports, Johnson never made it to the graduation, and was found unresponsive and partially submerged in scalding hot water in the bathtub of his hotel room at the Fairfield Inn & Suites near the San Jose airport, with the water still running.
The family says in a wrongful death claim against the hotel that Johnson was “effectively boiled alive” by the superheated shower water, which far exceeded state regulations for hot-water levels…