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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.
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Shuttered Ruby's Pantry faces $1.2 million wrongful death lawsuit

Richard Johnson was volunteering at a Ruby's Pantry distribution site in Cook when a stack of pallets struck him on March 14, 2024.

·Cherokee County, United States
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Duluth News Tribune broke the news in Cherokee County, United States on Thursday, May 28, 2026.
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