PORT ANGELES — The family of a teen-ager shot to death last year has filed a lawsuit seeking damages.
The suit, filed Tuesday in Clallam County Superior Court, alleges Timothy Patrick Smith and his mother, Ann O’Neil, were negligent in the death of 16-year-old Michael Sindars of Port Angeles last June 27.
Smith, who was 17 at the time of Sindars’ death, pleaded guilty in August to first-degree manslaughter for shooting Sindars in the face with a .45-caliber handgun while the two were in Smith’s 1616 W. 13th St. home.
He is serving a four-year prison sentence.
Smith and O’Neil have 20 days to respond to the suit.
O’Neil, who owns Anneann’s Junction Tavern, 242701 W. U.S. Highway 101, said Wednesday she did not yet know of the suit.
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