The suit claims Family Dollar was aware of complaints on the day Larry Banks died and that the store’s roof looked as if it was going to fall.

Attorneys representing Vicki Banks, the widow of Army veteran Larry Banks, who was killed in a building collapse, spoke about their wrongful death lawsuit against the property owner and Family Dollar.

The lawsuit claims the company and property owner failed to use reasonable care, and failed to notify the public the building was dangerous.

The failure to properly reinforce the entrance area of the Family Dollar store in Midtown after a 2016 car crash destroyed a key support column likely led to last week’s deadly collapse, a structural ...

An attorney is speaking out after a Family Dollar store collapsed in Kansas City, killing Larry Banks and injuring three others July 27.

Kansas City, Missouri, leaders are reviewing how dangerous-building policies broke down before a 68-year-old man died and several people were injured Sunday in a Family Dollar building collapse.

Police and the Kansas City Fire Department were at the scene of a Family Dollar store in the 3700 block of Broadway in Kansas City, Missouri, after a portion of it collapsed Sunday, July 27, 2025 ...

Updated: Jul 28, 2025 / 01:58 PM CDT KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One person was killed and three people were injured after the roof of a Family Dollar partially collapsed Sunday afternoon in Kansas City.

The Kansas City Fire Department responded to a report of a partial building collapse at a Family Dollar store on Broadway Boulevard around 2:45 p.m. local time on July 27, according to a news ...

Cheryl Carson, 68, of Kansas City entered the Family Dollar on Sunday morning, July 28, to air her concern that part of building was buckling and likely to collapse. The next afternoon it did.

Authorities in Kansas City, Missouri, say that a 68-year-old man has died and a 50-year-old woman suffered serious injuries when part of the roof and front facade of a Family Dollar store collapsed.

A dollar store building in midtown Kansas City partially collapsed Sunday afternoon, killing one person and injuring at least three others, according to Michael Hopkins, a spokesperson for the Kansas ...