Student killed walking to grab graduation cap and gown for 'Senior Walk' by drunk driver after school forced kids to park off campus due to 'insufficient' parking: Lawsuit

A high-school elder successful Nevada was killed by a drunk operator portion walking to drawback her graduation headdress and gown for a "Senior Walk" ceremonial aft her schoolhouse forced students to parkland disconnected field "due to insufficient on-campus parking," a suit says.

The parents of McKenzie Scott, 18, are suing the Clark County School District and the city of Las Vegas, arsenic good arsenic the operator who killed her, for negligence and wrongful decease successful transportation with the May 2025 clang that claimed her life.

The household filed its ineligible ailment outlining their allegations precisely 1 twelvemonth to the time that Scott died. Keenan Jackson pleaded blameworthy to DUI resulting successful decease successful October and was sentenced to service 8 to 20 years successful situation successful November.

"Scott was an 18-year-old precocious schoolhouse elder astatine Arbor View High School," the ailment says. "She was scheduled to enactment successful the school's 'Senior Walk' ceremonial that day. Due to insufficient on-campus parking … the schoolhouse had instructed students via email dated April 9, 2025, to parkland their vehicles connected North Buffalo Drive."

Scott's household says she parked her conveyance connected North Buffalo Drive "as instructed" by the school. She went extracurricular to "retrieve her headdress and gown from her conveyance to enactment successful the Senior Walk" and was connected her mode to her car erstwhile Jackson mowed her down with his 2018 Chevrolet Malibu portion she was successful a marked crosswalk.

"Scott was lawfully crossing," the ailment says. "Jackson failed to output the close of mode and struck her with his vehicle. The interaction caused [Scott] to prolong catastrophic blunt unit injuries."

Scott was pronounced dormant astatine the hospital. Her household says the crosswalk she was successful had been the taxable of "multiple complaints and concerns regarding its unreasonably unsafe nature" of which the metropolis and schoolhouse territory were aware.

"Despite these aggregate complaints and concerns of the unreasonably unsafe taxable crosswalk, neither suspect City of Las Vegas nor suspect CCSD took capable measures to support pedestrians utilizing the taxable crosswalk," the ailment alleges. "Defendant City of Las Vegas failed to instal capable informing devices, signals, oregon different postulation calming measures astatine the taxable crosswalk contempt existent cognition of the unreasonably unsafe conditions there."

Arbor View High School and the territory "knew oregon should person known" that directing students to parkland connected Buffalo Drive would exposure them to the "unreasonably dangerous" crosswalk and they "failed to supply capable crossing guards oregon different information measures," the ailment concludes.

"Following [Scott's] death, some the City of Las Vegas and CCSD implemented information measures that were known … and that were feasible to instrumentality anterior to May 2, 2025; and should person been successful spot anterior to May 2, 2025," the papers charges, noting however overhead pedestrian-activated flashers and further signage were installed astatine the crosswalk. A crossing defender programme astatine Arbor View High School was besides implemented.

Scott's household has requested a assemblage proceedings and much than $130,000 successful damages.

A CCSD spokesperson provided a connection to Law&Crime connected Wednesday, saying, "The CCSD assemblage continues to stock our deepest condolences with the household of McKenzie Scott. While we proceed to supply enactment to the schoolhouse assemblage pursuing the tragic loss, CCSD does not remark connected pending litigation."

The City of Las Vegas told Law&Crime, "The metropolis is reviewing the filing."