BOSTON (WHDH) - A valet at Brigham and Women’s Hospital is filing a lawsuit against his employer for an attack that happened last year.
The valet was shot in the eye by police as officers confronted a man they believed to be armed with a handgun.
The incident started when police said Juston Root flashed a paintball gun at an officer outside the hospital.
Root then took off in a car after he was shot in the leg and officers eventually shot and killed him a few miles away.
Fragments of a bullet were left in the valet’s brain and they said the hospital’s security staff mishandled the situation.
Root’s family said he had a history of mental illness.
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