"The elder Johnson's grandson, Deshun Johnson, found him lying partially submerged and unresponsive in the bathtub of the shower at the Fairfield Inn & Suites beside Mineta San Jose International Airport on May 22, with superheated water still running, according to the lawsuit filed last week in Santa Clara County Superior Court. Also present were Johnson's son, daughter-in-law and three granddaughters, including Trinity, who was to graduate the next day from San Jose State."
"'He died the night before the graduation,' said his son Terril Johnson II, of Riverside. Johnson had been 'ecstatic' at the prospect of seeing his granddaughter Trinity Johnson receive her management degree, his son said. 'When family members rushed to assist, the water was so dangerously hot they could not initially lift him from the tub,' the wrongful-death lawsuit said. 'As they struggled desperately to save him, they were forced to watch in horror as his skin peeled away from his body.'"
"The lawsuit said the shower doused Johnson with water heated to around 135 degrees, far above the legal maximum of 120 degrees under California's Plumbing Code. "Exposure to water at such temperatures is known to cause third-degree burns within seconds," said the lawsuit said, without citing a source for that assertion."
Terril Johnson, a 77-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran, drove six hours from Los Angeles to see his gymnast granddaughter graduate from San Jose State University. He was found partially submerged and unresponsive in a bathtub at the Fairfield Inn & Suites near Mineta San Jose International Airport on May 22, with superheated water still running. Family members could not initially lift him because the water was dangerously hot, and they observed his skin peeling away. A wrongful-death lawsuit alleges the shower delivered water around 135 degrees, exceeding California's 120-degree plumbing-code limit, and accuses Marriott International of operating a hazardous water-heating system seeking unspecified damages.
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