The deadly encounter outside a Portland preschool between a security guard and a motorist whose family says he was suffering from a mental health episode is back under the legal spotlight.
The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office previously cleared guard Eric Salisbury of all criminal charges in the May 8 fatal shooting of Manuel Garza IV, finding that the guard was pinned to the ground and at risk of being strangled to death when he opened fire.
But a $15 million lawsuit filed Thursday against 53-year-old Salisbury, the security company he owns and the preschool that hired him claims they are liable for a wrongful death…