The deadly encounter outside a Portland preschool between a security guard and a motorist whose family says he was suffering from a mental health episode is back under the legal spotlight.

The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office previously cleared guard Eric Salisbury of all criminal charges in the May 8 fatal shooting of Manuel Garza IV, finding that the guard was pinned to the ground and at risk of being strangled to death when he opened fire.

But a $15 million lawsuit filed Thursday against 53-year-old Salisbury, the security company he owns and the preschool that hired him claims they are liable for a wrongful death.

The suit says Garza, 32, had gone for a drive and was listening to music to “return to his baseline self” when he pulled into The Gan Preschool ’s

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