
Visitors to the Casa Adobe De San Rafael make their way out after taking a tour of the historic structure Sunday.
From the Glendale News-Press
CITY HALL — A wrongful death lawsuit against the city filed by the wife of a man who allegedly died from injuries sustained during a fall at the historical Casa Adobe de San Rafael is scheduled to go to trial this month.
Hasmik Khanbabayan filed the lawsuit in May 2008, a year after her husband, Vahan Karapetian, allegedly fell while stepping off a porch of the historical building at the city’s Casa Adobe park. He was hospitalized for a fractured hip and shoulder, according to the complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court. There were no witnesses to his fall.
Karapetian, who was in his 80s, was treated at Glendale Adventist Medical Center, where he died after being in the hospital for more than two months, according to the complaint.
Khanbabayan is alleging in the lawsuit that the porch her husband fell from was unsafe, and that there were inadequate security patrols, which left him “laying on the ground for 45 minutes in a pool of his own blood.”
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