Three-year-old Tamarcus Ewing and his mother, Deborah Thompson, both were thrown from the 1994 GEO Tracker in which they were riding as passengers in DeSoto County when the tread on the right rear Cooper tire sheared off from the rest of the tire.
Tamarcus Ewing suffered lifelong physical disabilities. His mother, more tragically, died in the accident that occurred on April 29, 2001.
Less than a year later, the Macon Beacon, an age-old Noxubee County weekly, reported Attorneys Armstrong Walters and Ed Sanders of Columbus, J. C. Patton of Louisville, and the late Bennie Turner, attorney and former state senator from West Point, had filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of sole wrongful death beneficiary Tamarcus Ewing…