Family suing carwash and employees after homicide

ATLANTA — A carwash and its employees here are the target of a civil lawsuit after an attempted robbery ended with a man’s death, wsbtv.com reported.

The Aug. 31 story stated that Keary Jackson, 41, maced the accountant of the Cactus Car Wash who was leaving the location with a bank deposit. A struggle occurred as Jackson unsuccessfully tried to steal the money.

As Jackson fled the wash, several employees pursued. The workers pinned him to the ground and used plastic ties to bind his hands, the story noted.

By the time police arrived at the scene, Jackson was unresponsive, and he was then pronounced dead at a hospital, according to the story. Jackson’s death was later ruled a homicide by the medical examiner.

Now attorneys for Jackson’s family are saying that what the employees did amounted to murder. “That vigilante mob of Cactus Car Wash acted as the police, the judge, the jury and the executioner,” Attorney Terance Madden said in the story.