The families of two teen boys shot, one fatally, by a Douglass Park lifeguard in June filed a lawsuit this week against the alleged gunman and the Chicago Park District, saying it should have known the former lifeguard was “unfit and a danger of harm to others.”

“We want answers, we want accountability and we want change so this never happens again,” attorney Jeff Neslund said at a Wednesday morning news conference at Park District headquarters in Brighton Park. He was surrounded by about a dozen of the boys’ friends and family members.

Charles Leto, a Park District lifeguard, was charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder following the June 26 shooting near the West Side pool. He pleaded not guilty and claimed to police that the shooting was in self-defense.

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