John O'Connor

The parents of a Hamilton Township teenager who died when she was hit by a train 10 years ago have filed a new lawsuit, alleging investigators misclassified it as a suicide without taking into account that she could have been murdered because she was a lesbian, according to court documents.

Attorneys from the D’Amato Law Firm, along with Tiffany Valiante’s parents and representatives of a forensics company, announced the filing during a news conference Friday at the firm’s office in Egg Harbor Township.

Valiante, 18, was preparing for her first semester at Mercy College in New York when she was struck by a train on the Atlantic City Rail Line on July 12, 2015. The train was bound for the Absecon station when it struck the teen on a secluded stretch of tracks at mile marker

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