Lawsuit Claims Home Depot Negligent in Missouri Tornado Deaths

As the tornado tore across 20th Street and Range Line Road, Russell “Rusty’’ Howard sought shelter with his two children in Home Depot. Although accounts vary, reports suggest that a Home Depot employee went to the lumber entrance to unlock a door to let in two groups of people as the storm bore down on the store.
Seconds later, the entire roof came off the building. The roof helped hold in place 73 tilt-up concrete panels that formed the walls of the store. With the roof gone, 63 of those 100,000-pound slabs fell. Some fell inward. Some fell outward.