The family of a construction worker killed in January while working on Baylor University’s new on-campus football stadium has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the university and several construction and equipment companies.

Jose Dario Suarez’s wife, two daughters, son and mother are seeking unspecified damages in their lawsuit, which was filed last week in Harris County.

The petition says Harris County is a proper venue for the lawsuit because one of the defendants, Flexifloat Construction Systems, is located in Houston.

Besides Baylor and Flexifloat, the suit also names as defendants Austin Commercial Inc., Austin Bridge and Road, Derr and Isbell Construction Inc. and Genie Industries Inc.

Austin Commercial, Austin Bridge and Road, and Derr and Isbell are construction companies building Baylor’s McLane Stadium and a walking bridge over the Brazos River linking the stadium to campus.

Suarez, 55, of Manor, drowned Jan. 28 after a hydraulic lift he and another construction worker were strapped to slipped or rolled from a modular barge into the Brazos River.

Suarez and another man were working on the pedestrian bridge over the river behind Baylor Law School. The other man was able to untether himself after the lift went into the river, but Suarez was not.

Divers found Suarez’s body still strapped to the lift about four hours later.

“This is a terrible tragedy and our hearts go out to the Suarez family, but we have not yet seen the…

The two women who were abducted at the Avon Wal-Mart and later repeatedly raped have filed a lawsuit against the retail giant that alleges the company failed to intervene and call police after a man kidnapped them at gunpoint.

The complaint was filed Wednesday, a day before Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry announced a litany of charges against the suspect. Michael Parrish, 37, Indianapolis, is accused of raping those two women and three others over a two-day period in early February. The boyfriend of one of the two women was beaten.

According to the complaint, filed in Hendricks Superior Court, the women were loading groceries into their truck in the store’s parking lot when Parrish kidnapped them at gunpoint. The complaint states that before that happened, Parrish had been seen on Wal-Mart’s security cameras acting suspiciously inside the store. Later, the complaint alleges, security cameras captured the kidnapping.

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But no one from the store, the complaint alleges, called police after the women were abducted about 11 p.m.

The complaint alleges that the company violated Indiana law by failing to protect its customers and by allowing Parrish to remain on its premises despite suspicious behavior.

Betsy Harden, spokeswoman for Wal-Mart Stores Inc., said she could not comment about the complaint but said the company is reviewing it and is investigating the…