Accident Lawyers Dallas

Parents Say Story About Dead Son Defamed Them

     DALLAS (CN) - Parents of a teenager who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, apparently while in pain from an auto accident, sued the Dallas Morning News, claiming its columnist Steve Blow falsely accused them of covering up their son's nonexistent mental illness - in the family's paid obituary in the Morning News.
     John and Mary Ann Tatum say their 17-year-old son Paul "had absolutely no history of mental illness or depression." He suffered disorienting head injuries in a one-car accident on the night of May 17, 2010, "wandered from the crash site and ultimately made his way home," where he drank champagne to ease his pain, and while "dazed, confused, irrational, incoherent and apparently in physical anguish," shot himself as a result of head trauma after a car crash. They sued columnist Steve Blow and The Dallas Morning News in Dallas County Court.
     Paul Tatum died in May 2010, after being involved in a car accident while his parents were out of town. Despite his severe injuries, Paul made his way home from the crash site. Tipped off by Paul's incoherent text messages and calls, one of Paul's friends drove to the Tatums' house with her mother to check on Paul. She found Paul "dazed, confused, irrational, incoherent, and apparently in physical anguish," and while he was alone in a room, Paul shot himself in the head, according to the complaint in Dallas County Court.
     His mother, Mary Ann Tatum, who describes herself as "a well-known Dallas mental health professional," says her son "has absolutely no history of mental illness or depression."
     Nonetheless, she says, after her son's funeral, which was attended by more than 1,000 people, Blow wrote a column taking the family to task for the obituary they paid the Morning News to publish.
     The Tatums wrote in their son's obituary that he died "as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident."
     But a month after the obituary was published - on Father's Day, no less - the Morning News published Blow's column on what he perceived as "the 'problem' of people refusing to openly discuss suicide," according to the complaint.

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