BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A claim seeking more than $5 million has been filed against the city in connection with the death of a man struck by a Bakersfield Police Department vehicle in June.
The claim, a precursor to a lawsuit, says the officer drove at excessive speed and without emergency lights or siren activated when he hit and killed a man crossing South Union Avenue.
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Brandon Elliott Gabriel Flores , 27, died at the scene of the June 17 crash.
The claim was filed last month by Los Angeles-based Law Offices of Larry Rabineau on behalf of Flores’ 3-year-old daughter. The city has 45 days from the date of filing to respond…