近日退休的雷纳尔多·赫苏斯·莱丰茨（Reinaldo Jesus Lefonts）在唐尼市图书馆停车场为电动车充电时遭遇持刀袭击，两侧颈动脉和颈静脉均被切断。救护车抵达现场时他仍有生命体征，但该急救车随后竟遭人盗走。
警方称，救护车司机与警方展开追逐，最终在数英里外发生撞车事故。
“那一刻，每一秒都至关重要，”莱丰茨（Lefonts）的家属在针对该市的法律诉讼中表示。“该市的急救人员和救援车辆是雷纳尔多（Reinaldo）唯一现实的生存机会。”
当局称，勒方茨在刺伤现场身亡。
如今，他的家人正向该市索赔4000万美元。其代理律师指出，当地公共安全与应急响应系统存在疏漏。他们认为，停车场内一块标有“监控”的标识让勒方茨误认为该区域是安全的，且涉事救护车缺少必要的锁定装置。
根据周五向唐尼市书记官提交的索赔文件，这名68岁的老人刚从加州大学欧文分校医学中心实验室技术员岗位退休不久，便于2025年9月13日早晨在布鲁克谢尔大道11121号公共图书馆旁的唐尼市政中心停车场遭遇袭击。23岁的嫌疑人乔瓦尼·纳瓦罗（Giovanni Navarro）在案发前不到24小时，曾因在同一地点非法侵入被捕。
律师称，纳瓦罗此前有28项刑事犯罪记录，包括挥舞武器、企图入室盗窃和刑事威胁等。
洛杉矶县法医确认，莱丰茨（Lefonts）的头部、颈部和右前臂至少遭受了四处锐器伤。尸检报告显示，致命伤为颈部刺伤，死亡方式被判定为他杀。
家属律师指出，出警的道尼消防局救援车辆未按州法律及消防部门相关标准配备Tremco防盗锁装置。据称，当医护人员救治莱方茨时，52岁的尼古拉斯·德马科（Nicholas DeMarco）闯入救护车并驾车逃离，警方随即展开追捕。
尸检报告显示，勒方茨于上午9点55分在停车场被宣告死亡。
根据该声明，2022年1月至2025年12月期间，市政部门共接到约675起涉及市民中心和图书馆的服务请求，包括袭击、抢劫、性犯罪、纵火及毒品违法等案件。
诉状中指出："尽管暴力袭击和盗窃均属犯罪行为，但鉴于市政中心周边已知的环境状况及该区域屡次发生的犯罪和流动人口活动，此类事件本应完全可预见。市政府未能配备专用救援车辆并妥善保管，直接影响了雷纳尔多（Reinaldo）获得紧急救治。最终导致他未能及时获得亟需的医疗救助。"
律师称，在勒丰茨遇害前几周，唐尼市议会于2025年8月26日的会议上收到了一份关于无家可归者相关公共安全问题的报告。
家属律师还提出，停车场张贴的“24小时监控区域”标识，使勒方茨在付费使用市政电动车充电桩时，合理认为自已处于受保护空间。诉状中如是陈述。
首席律师亚历克西斯·加林多（Alexis Galindo）在声明中表示：“唐尼市政府清楚这个停车场存在安全隐患。他们知道杀害雷纳尔多（Reinaldo）的凶手前一天刚在此处被捕，也知道自己的救援车辆配备不全，却依然无动于衷。雷纳尔多本可获得近在咫尺的救援，却最终丧生。他的家人理应得到真相、问责与公正。”
该索赔要求包括3500万美元的一般损害赔偿和500万美元的特殊经济损失赔偿。根据加利福尼亚州法律，市政府有一年时间作出回应，可选择接受、拒绝或和解。若市政府拒绝索赔，家属有权向法院正式提起诉讼。
Recent retiree Reinaldo Jesus Lefonts was charging his EV in a Downey library parking lot when he was attacked in a stabbing that severed both carotid arteries and both jugular veins. He was alive when an ambulance arrived at the parking lot but that emergency vehicle was then stolen.
The driver of the ambulance, according to police, led officers on a pursuit that ended in a crash miles away.
In that moment, every second mattered, Lefonts family says in a legal claim against the city. The Citys paramedics and rescue vehicle were Reinaldos only realistic chance of survival.
Lefonts died at the scene of the stabbing, authorities say.
Now his family is seeking $40 million from the city. Their attorneys cite failures in public safety and the emergency response. They say a surveillance sign at the lot led Lefonts to believe he was safe, and that the ambulance was missing a required locking device.
The 68-year-old had only recently retired from his job as a lab technician at UCI Medical Center when he was attacked on the morning of Sept. 13, 2025, in the Downey Civic Center parking lot adjacent to the public library at 11121 Brookshire Ave., according to the claim, filed Friday with the Downey city clerk. Suspect Giovanni Navarro, 23, had been arrested for trespassing at the same location less than 24 hours earlier.
Navarro had 28 prior criminal convictions, including brandishing a weapon, attempted burglary and criminal threats, attorneys said.
The Los Angeles County medical examiner determined that Lefonts suffered at least four sharp force injuries to his head, neck and right forearm. The fatal wound was a stab to the neck, and the manner of death was ruled a homicide, according to the autopsy report.
The Downey Fire Department rescue vehicle that responded was not equipped with a Tremco anti-theft locking device required under state law and applicable Fire Department standards, the familys attorneys argue. While paramedics treated Lefonts, 52-year-old Nicholas DeMarco allegedly got into the ambulance and drove away. The police pursuit followed.
In the parking lot, Lefonts was pronounced dead at 9:55 a.m., the autopsy report states.
The city logged about 675 calls for service to the Civic Center and library between January 2022 and December 2025, covering assaults, robberies, sex crimes, arson and narcotics violations, according to the claim.
While both the violent attack and theft were criminal acts, it was entirely foreseeable in light of the known conditions around the Civic Center and the repeated criminal and transient activity in the area, the claim states. The Citys failure to equip its own rescue vehicle and secure it properly directly interfered with the provision of emergency care to Reinaldo. As a result, Reinaldo did not receive the timely medical treatment he desperately needed.
Just weeks before Lefonts was killed, the Downey City Council received a report at its Aug. 26, 2025, meeting on homelessness-related public safety concerns, attorneys said.
The familys attorneys also argue that the lots posted signage, reading Area Under 24 Hour Surveillance, led Lefonts to reasonably believe he was in a protected space when he paid the city to use its EV charger, the claim states.
The City of Downey knew this parking lot was dangerous, lead attorney Alexis Galindo said in a statement. They knew the man who killed Reinaldo had just been arrested there the day before. They knew their rescue vehicle wasnt properly equipped. And still, they did nothing. Reinaldo died within reach of help that should have been there. His family deserves answers, accountability and justice.
The claim seeks $35 million in general damages and $5 million in special economic damages. Under California law, the city has up to one year to respond by accepting, rejecting or settling. A rejection would allow the family to file the case in court as a formal lawsuit.
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