Police officer’s widow files $25 million claims against Manhattan Beach and El Segundo
The scene of the accident as seen from a news helicopter. Tracy Garton, the wife of the Hawthorne police officer who died in a motorcycle accident at the funeral procession of a Manhattan Beach police officer, filed $25 million claims against the cities of Manhattan Beach and El Segundo on Nov. 4. Garton alleges that both cities were negligent in planning the funeral service that led to her husband’s death. On May 26, Andrew Garton and Sergeant Rex Fowler of El Segundo were escorting the funeral procession for Manhattan Beach police officer Mark Vasquez, who had died of cancer three weeks before. At around 12:30 p.m., on their way to Vasquez’s burial at Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palos Verdes, Andrew Garton and Fowler’s motorcycles collided while the two were driving southbound on Hawthorne Boulevard near 227th Street. Garton subsequently died and Fowler endured a broken leg. The claim against Manhattan Beach, filed also on behalf of Tracy and Andrew Garton’s sons, Grant and Garrett, contends that Manhattan Beach “negligently, carelessly, recklessly, or in some other actionable manner, planned, organized, coordinated, controlled, regulated, monitored, and supervised the…
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