Beyond the felony charge 22-year-old Kendall Batchelor is facing for intoxicated manslaughter, a civil suit has been filed by the parents of the man killed in the accident, John and Jeanette Belter.
The wrongful death suit is against Bathcelor herself with both parents of the deceased – David John Belter – filing a wrongful death suit in Bexar County where Batchelor’s last known residence is. The lawsuit states the parents are seeking more than $1 million in damages with no exact amount specified.
“Plaintiffs have suffered tremendous loss from the death of their son,” the original petition in the suit against Batchelor states. “Plaintiffs have suffered the past and future loss of care, maintenance, support, services, advice, counsel and reasonable contributions of a pecuniary value, that plaintiffs, in reasonable probability, would have received form David John Belter had he lived.
