Fischer Redavid’s Jordan Redavid, left, and Wicker Smith’s Michael Reed deliver opening statements at trial over the drowning death of a four-year-old child. Watch the trial.
Gainesville, FL— Attorneys Tuesday debated what caused the death of a Florida toddler, as trial opened against a shopping center owner and manager of the site where the child drowned. Figueroa, et al. v. American Commercial Realty Corp., et al., 2023-CA-001916.
Kash Hodges, 4, fatally drowned in a retention pond behind Gainesville, Florida’s Oakwood Commons Shopping Center in March 2023. Hodges’ parents, Taychianna Figueroa and Gabriel Hodges, contend the property’s owner, Live Oak Shoppes Group LLC, and its manager, American Commercial Realty Corp., are responsible, because they failed to properly maintain or fence the pond…