(KTLA) — In a lawsuit filed earlier this month in Santa Clara County Superior Court, family members of Los Angeles resident Terril Johnson, 72, allege scalding shower water as hot as 136 degrees led to his death in a San Jose hotel.

A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Johnson made the six-hour drive to San Jose with his family to see his gymnast granddaughter graduate from San Jose State University on May 22.

After arriving at the Fairfield by Marriott Inn & Suites San Jose Airport, the 72-year-old opted for a shower that, according to the lawsuit, “effectively boiled him alive,” the L.A. Times reported.

It was Johnson’s grandson who went into the bathroom to check on his grandfather and found him unresponsive, partially submerged in the bathtub in water so hot that family members were

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