A North Carolina father is suing the “largest hospital company in America” after one of its employees “ran over” his 26-year-old cyclist son and killed him with a 20,000-pound box truck before fleeing, his lawsuit alleges.
Alexander Rozos was riding his bicycle in Asheville on the 300 block of Swannanoa River Road near South Tunnel Road when Mauricio Roberto Melgar Delgado, 48, allegedly crossed through the intersection and mowed him down in July 2024, according to his father’s legal complaint, which was filed in Buncombe County Superior Court last week.
“Delgado caught up to, struck, and ran over [Rozos],” the complaint says, listing HCA Healthcare and Asheville’s Mission Hospital as defendants, along with Delgado, who is charged with felony hit-and-run inflicting serious injury or death…