SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- A Utah pawn shop broker who sold a gun to a man who used it to kill five people in the 2007 Trolley Square rampage should have known better, a lawsuit claims.
Sulejman Talovic, 18, opened fire at the Trolley Square mall in February 2007, killing five people and wounding four others. Police shot and killed Talovic.
Carolyn Tuft, who survived the ordeal, sued the pawn shop chain Sportsman's Fast Cash and its parent company, Rocky Mountain Enterprises, for the death of her 15-year-old daughter and for injuries Carolyn suffered, The Salt Lake Tribune said Wednesday.
Mark Williams, Tuft's attorney, says firearms dealer Westley Hill -- who apparently worked at the pawn shop -- shares responsibility for the shooting because he sold Talovic a pistol-grip shotgun.
"The pistol-grip shotgun serves no reasonable sporting purpose other than for military, law enforcement or criminal activities," Williams wrote in the suit.
Talovic was a legal resident alien from Bosnia. Hill said in an earlier case he failed to indicate on a form whether Talovic provided secondary identification that is required for legal aliens to purchase firearms, the newspaper reported.
