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Shuttered Ruby's Pantry faces $1.2 million wrongful death lawsuit
Richard Paul Johnson, 72, died on March 26, 2024, from injuries sustained while volunteering at a Ruby's Pantry food distribution site in northern Minnesota.
On January 17, 2025, Jennifer Johnson filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Ruby's Pantry of Home and Away Ministries and employee Richard Thompson in St. Louis County Sixth Judicial Court.
The lawsuit seeks damages totaling over $1.2 million, claiming the death resulted from negligence when a food pallet fell from a forklift and struck Johnson on the head.
Ruby's Pantry and St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Angora denied any negligence related to Johnson's death.