The family of a woman who was kidnapped and killed has sued OnStar over its refusal to reveal where the missing woman was before she was fatally shot.
Mary Ann Elvington, 80, was kidnapped from her home in South Carolina’s Horry County on March 28, 2021, and forced to drive her abductor to North Carolina in her Buick.
When her children became worried about her whereabouts that day, her son called her. She said she was driving and didn’t know where she was, and she didn’t reveal that she had been kidnapped.
The son then called the driver-assistance system OnStar and asked its operator to use the tracking function to tell him where his mother was. The operator wouldn’t give the information to the son or to law enforcement officers, says the lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday.
The woman’s body was found the next day behind a grocery store in Marion County, S.C. The car was abandoned in woods 12 miles away.
Dominique Brand, 29, was arrested on March 31 and was convicted in a trial in September 2022. He is also named as a defendant in the family’s suit.
The suit, first reported by Courthouse News, contends that OnStar had an obligation to provide assistance to Elvington, and adds: “Had Defendant OnStar timely provided the location of Decedent’s vehicle, which was known at all relevant times to Defendant Onstar, Decedent would have been found alive.”
Hits: 0
