LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Legal Newsline) -- A father has filed a lawsuit after his son was killed while trying to stop a robbery at an Arkansas convenience store.
Shawn McKeough Sr. filed a complaint on June 10 in the Pulaski County Circuit Court against Summerwood Partners, LLC d.b.a Big Red and Douglas A. Hendrix for negligence.
According to the complaint, on March 15, 2019, at approximately 11:38 p.m., Shawn McKeough, Jr. was in a Valero Big Red convenience store with two friends. McKeough allegedly walked to the wall display cooler while his friends obtained other items to purchase from another isle in the store when two males, later identified as Darrius Stewart and Drequan Robinson, came into the store.
Stewart and Robinson entered the front door of the store yelling at customers and the store clerk that a robbery was occurring, the suit says. Robinson allegedly started ordering store patrons to lay on the floor and hand over their money and valuables or be shot.
McKeough made a decision to intervene to prevent the killing of his friends and other customers and was fatally shot in the head, the suit says. McKeough died at the scene. Shawn McKeough Sr. is suing for negligence alleging that the convenience store was not diligent in preventing robberies.
Shawn McKeough Sr. is represented by Harold F. Cook of Cook and Cossio.