Jury rules for city of San Diego in teen drowning wrongful-death civil suit

A San Diego civil jury found in favor of the city of San Diego Thursday in a wrongful death trial stemming from the drowning of an 18-year-old man swept out to sea at Mission Beach nearly three years ago.

Attorneys representing the family of Woodlain Zachee Prudhomme alleged that on June 14, 2022, a city lifeguard told the teen and his girlfriend to move out of an area where they were safely in waist-deep water and toward an area where a rip current was known to be.

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