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*Former NBA player Marcus Camby has been named the defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit over the drowning of his 9-year-old autistic nephew.
The boy drowned in a pond on Camby’s Houston-area property last Thanksgiving (2016), ESPN reports. The federal lawsuit was filed by the boy’s father, Marcus Kendall McGhee, who alleges that Camby was aware of his nephew limitations but failed to supervise the child and used no protective measures to keep him away from the pond.
The boy was found dead two days after he was reported missing. But Camby says he is not responsible for his nephew’s drowning and instead puts the blame on his own sister for not watching her son.
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According to court documents obtained by The Blast, Camby has now responded to the lawsuit — arguing that he had no legal responsibility for the incident under Texas law and says it was “a terrible, tragic and unnecessary death of a young boy … who was part of Camby’s own family.”
He points out that his nephew’s mother, aunt, and grandmother were all present on the day of the drowning and says they “failed to properly supervise, monitor and control the activities of Marcus.”
Camby is asking a judge to throw out the suit. A judge has yet to rule.
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