The mother of a man fatally hit by a train filed a new version of her lawsuit against both San Bernardino County and Loma Linda University Medical Center Jan. 30.
Deborah Moller claims the hospital called the sheriff’s department to remove her 33-year-old son, Bret Breunig, from the hospital without treating him on Aug. 18, 2021. Breunig had an infected leg, according to the complaint. She claimed that sheriff’s deputies dropped Breunig off near the train crossing at Alessandro Road and San Timoteo Canyon Road in Redlands, without his phone or shoes.
Breunig attempted to climb on a moving train, according to a death certificate attached to the complaint, and died of
