LaMelo Ball and the Charlotte Hornets are being sued by the mom of an 11-year-old fan who suffered a damaged foot when Ball ran over it on October 7.
The younger fan, Angell Joseph, was making an attempt to get an autograph from Ball on the time.
“[Angell] was like, ‘LaMelo, I really like you. I really like you, signal my… give me your autograph. Are you able to signal it for me?’” his mom Tamaria McRae instructed WSOCTV.com.
“I simply seen my son type of go down and I believed possibly he had dropped one thing.”
In accordance with McRae, it took her son months to get well mentally and bodily.
“That is his hero, his idol, and he bought run over by him,” the household’s lawyer Cameron DeBrun stated.
DeBrun added that no declare was filed with Ball’s insurance coverage firm to pay the medical payments as a result of the police report didn’t checklist Ball’s title or his insurer.
The household claims that with out that info being offered, their solely accessible motion was to file a lawsuit.
The Hornets have been additionally named within the go well with as a result of the household needed extra security measures in place to guard followers.
Ball has been filmed driving recklessly previously, together with rushing out of the world and working crimson lights.
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