AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The wife of the disgruntled taxpayer who flew a plane into an Austin, Texas, building last week should have known her husband was a threat, a lawsuit charges.
The suit was filed by Valerie Hunter, the widow of Vernon Hunter, the IRS agent who was killed when Andrew Joseph Stack III flew his Piper Cherokee PA-28 into a building that housed an IRS office with hundreds of employees, CNN reports.
Hunter's lawsuit charges Stack's wife Sheryl with negligence, alleging she knew or should have known her husband was a threat to others and could have prevented the attack.
"Stack was threatened enough by Joseph Stack that she took her daughter and stayed at a hotel the night before the crash," the suit filed Monday says.
It went on to say that Sheryl Stack "owed a duty to exercise reasonable care to avoid a foreseeable risk of injury to others."
