{"id":27765,"date":"2025-10-29T00:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/27765\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:13:21","slug":"grandfather-killed-by-scalding-hot-shower-at-san-jose-hotel-lawsuit-alleges-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/27765\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandfather killed by scalding hot shower at San Jose hotel, lawsuit alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The family of a man who died during a trip to San Jose is suing the hotel, alleging the hot water in the shower scalded him to death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was visiting in May to attend his granddaughter&#8217;s graduation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It happened at Marriott&#8217;s Fairfield Inn and Suites San Jose Airport, according to a lawsuit obtained by ABC7 News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The wrongful death lawsuit says 77-year-old Terril Johnson of Riverside was exposed to scalding hot water, measuring 134-136 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That is far above the safe and lawful maximum of 120 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ABC7 News reached out to Marriott for a response, but we have not yet heard back.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/abc-news-live-local-watch\/11513295\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/131c44567cfd550c1c93df1368fb6896.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you&#8217;re on the ABC7 News app, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/abc-news-live-local-watch\/11513295\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here to watch live;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here to watch live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of a man who died during a trip to San Jose is suing the hotel, alleging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[15101,20469,88,90,89,20890,19883,20889],"class_list":{"0":"post-27765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-abc7-news","9":"tag-marriott","10":"tag-san-jose","11":"tag-san-jose-headlines","12":"tag-san-jose-news","13":"tag-scalding-hot","14":"tag-terril-johnson","15":"tag-wrongful-death-lawsuit"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}