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The Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis said Monday it will toughen its trespassing policies as part of an agreement with the family of a boy who was seriously injured when a man with a history of causing a disturbance at the mall threw the boy from a third floor. floor balcony.
The boy’s family or the mall did not release additional details of the settlement.
The boy, identified only as Landen, was 5 years old when Emmanuel Aranda threw him nearly 40 feet to the ground. Aranda, who had been banned from the Bloomington, Minn., mall twice in previous years, told investigators he went there “looking for someone to kill” after the women rebuffed his advances. the. He pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder and was sentenced to 19 years in prison for the attack on Landen.
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The family claimed in a lawsuit filed last year that mall security should have prevented Aranda from “loitering” the building without an officer closely following him. The lawsuit alleges that the mall and its security team knew about previous “violent, aggressive and erratic” behavior that Aranda had displayed at the mall.
In a joint statement announcing the settlement, the mall and the family said they will work together on policy changes to prevent similar incidents.
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“Mall of America and the family have agreed to work together with a focus on security, and are already seeking policy changes to existing trespass limits for violent offenders to provide greater ability to exclude such individuals from their facilities.” the statement said. .
The lawsuit sought unspecified damages. By the time it came forward, a lawyer for the family said the boy had already incurred more than $1.7 million in medical expenses. Landen’s parents said on their GoFundMe page in 2019 that Landen had more than 15 medical procedures, including surgeries for two broken arms and a broken leg, facial and skull fractures, and removal of his spleen.
“The child’s recovery has been nothing short of miraculous and the focus remains on her health and well-being, including privacy during this time,” the Monday statement added. “The mall and the family will ask that any resulting changes be named after the child.”
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