KERR COUNTY, Texas - A Texas law firm has filed what is believed to be the first lawsuit in Kerr County related to July's deadly and devastating flooding.
The suit, filed by Glasheen, Valles & Inderman Injury Lawyers, is on behalf of the family of 22-year-old Jayda Floyd of Odessa, one of 118 people who died in Kerr County during the flooding.
What we know:
Jayda Floyd was staying at the HTR TX Hill Country Resort, an RV park and campground on the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, with her fiancé and his family when floodwaters began rising overnight, according to the law firm.
The law firm says that Jayda's last heroic act was helping her fiancé's teenage stepsiblings climb up on the roof of the RV, saving their lives.
Jayda had been working as a juvenile probation officer in Ector