Tellsville, MI-Iron ore mine owner Clay Amberthorp appeared in court on Monday to face accusations that he and his company were negligent in the shooting death of a Michigan State Police officer in 2005. The suit charges that sometime between 2000 and 2003, Amberthorp Mining of Michigan willfully sold iron ore which eventually ended up in a gun used to kill police officer Jeremy Gibbons. Bailiffs hauled bag after bag of unrefined iron ore into the courtroom, as the plantiff’s legal team entered it as evidence. Lead attorney Anthony Ballgetti then proceeded to diagram how the ore made its way from the Michigan deposit to the chrome-plated Smith and Wesson .357 used by Jerry Stills on the night of the shooting.
"In our eyes, the people who mined the ore, those who shipped it to the refinery, the workers who smelted it, the fabricators who shaped the steel forms and the truckers who delivered the finished ingots to the gun manufacturers are just as culpable in the death of Mr. Gibbons as the person who pulled the trigger" said Angela Beck spokesperson for the Brady Center, one of the plaintiffs in the $48 million suit.
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