SAN DIEGO – A jury on Friday awarded $8.5 million to the parents of a bus passenger who died after another passenger restrained him for several minutes during an altercation on a San Diego bus.
The San Diego Superior Court jury found the San Diego County Metropolitan Transit System was liable for 40% of the award. The jury unanimously found that the agency’s negligence was a substantial factor in the 2022 death of Anthony McGaff.
San Diego police said shortly after the incident that the bus was on F Street near 14th Street in downtown San Diego on the evening of April 30, 2022, where the bus stopped after McGaff and a female passenger got into an altercation. A 56-year-old male passenger witnessed it and intervened, restraining McGaff for several minutes. The civil suit alleged the restraint lasted eight minutes…