The U.S. Air Force may no longer be held accountable in a lawsuit filed by the family of a teenager who died at Robins Air Force Base, but the federal government might.

Gabriel Lee Stone, 14, died June 22, 2024, when a wall fell and crushed him at the Heritage Club Pool at Robins Air Force Base in Houston County.

His parents filed a lawsuit in March against the U.S government, Air Force and unnamed Air Force employees, “alleging negligence in the inspection, maintenance and construction of the wall” under the Federal Tort Claims Act and Georgia law.

In an order signed Tuesday by Judge Marc Treadwell, the U.S. government argued the Air Force and unnamed Air Force employees should be dismissed from the lawsuit, court records show.

The government also sought to limit the case by arguing t

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