The lawsuit accuses the city of failing to maintain basic maintenance of the splash pad and failing to adequately treat the water supply, posing a risk to the general public. They said they'd visited the splash park several times including at least three visits leading up to the time of his death.
'He has always been a big ball of energy, it is very quiet at home without him,' said Bakari's mother, Kayla Mitchell. He didn’t deserve to die in this manner,' said Tariq Williams, Bakari's father. 'We just want you all to know that Bakari was a loving, energetic, compassionate, sweet, beautiful, innocent boy. 11.īakari's parents, Tariq Williams and Kayla Mitchell described their son as energetic and loving.
Williams visited the city's Don Misenhimer park before being hospitalized at Cook Children's Medical Center with primary amebic meningoencephalitis. The attorneys shared photos and identified the child as 3-year-old Bakari Williams.
The attorneys representing the family of the young boy who died after likely becoming infected with a deadly amoeba at an Arlington splash pad stood alongside the child's parents at a news conference Monday afternoon and announced they'd filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Arlington.
