HOUSTON – Houston attorneys have filed a lawsuit against Silverleaf Resorts, Inc. in Lake Conroe after a 7-year-old boy was shot in the head with an arrow at the resort.
The lawsuit alleges that the company was negligent in its design, oversight, and operation of its archery range at one of its properties, causing a serious head injury to the child. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for both the child and his family for past and future medical expenses, past and future pain and suffering, past and future physical impairment, past and future disfigurement, and future loss of earning capacity. The lawsuit was filed on June 23 in Dallas County, Texas.
Londen Chavez was celebrating his birthday at Piney Shores Resort, a property operated by Silverleaf Resorts. While at the resort's archery range, the boy was retrieving arrows from the target area when his 12-year-old brother fired an arrow toward the target. The 12-year-old was not aware that his little brother was near the target and the arrow pierced the 7-year-old's head.
When the incident occurred, none of the resort's employees were at the archery range, leaving the activity unmonitored and unsupervised, attorneys say.
The lawsuit charges that the archery range was dangerous in design because it allowed users to pass in front of the targets unseen by those shooting the arrows. It further alleges that the defendant was negligent and thus liable for the injuries resulting from that negligence because it knew or should have known that the design and layout of the archery range was dangerous, but did nothing to make the archery range safe.
The law firm of Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Friend filed the lawsuit on behalf of the family.