Wrongful death lawsuit filed in listeria death of Felton wom

law suit is filed in santa cruz county court. we’ll have live report… plus …violence is spiking in watsonville…we’ll take a look at the numbers… and not one…but 52 christmas trees in a one bedroom apartment… one woman goes all out!! you only live local prime time news at 10 starts now… a local family is suing a grocery giant.. alleging a tainted caramel apple is responsible for a deadly listeria infection. good evening thanks for joing im jon brent. this case is part of a multi-state outbreak with several deaths. where the source is still now found. newschannel 5 reporter marissa schwartz is live in felton tonight, where attorneys claim a woman purchased an infected apple before her death. marissa… jon-a family attorney tells me the woman bought pre-packaged, commercially produced caramel apples at this safeway in felton on at least two occasions. about a month later, family members say doctors determined she died because of a listeria infection. *trt:outcue::*:06-:15:20-:30 1:28-135—take pkg—-“you know there was something going on but they couldn’t put their finger on it, there was an area of the brain that didnt look right, there was some swelling.”>> brad frey tells me his mother, 81-year-old shirlee jean frey, had an accident a few weeks before… >> which quite possibly lead to doctors discovering the infection.>> “our mom fell in the kitchen, nobody witnessed her go down, my dad heard the chair slide out, so we don’t really know why she fell.”>> during an initial trip to stanford hospital, frey was sent home after treatment for a brain hemorrhage says her son brad frey. >> but on thanksgiving morning, frey says rehab nurses weren’t able to wake her up.>> “it’s been a rough month, kind of a roller coaster because we really thought you know she had gotten through the worst of it and she was, you know we were gonna get our mom back so…” >> frey died december 2nd and family members say they started looking for answers after learning about 29 reported cases of listeria infection, of those, five deaths. >> one family member still had several apples leftover from the time when frey made the purchase around halloween. >> “about that same time the health department had already contacted out father because my brother had called my dad across the street.”>> frey says the health department picked up the apples as evidence. >> now the freys await more information, following a wrongful death lawsuit filed on monday in santa cruz county. >> “the goal in most food-borne illness cases is not just compensation for the horror that this family has gone through but you know to figure out why it happened and how to prevent the next one.”