A prominent Minnesota attorney has been hired to unravel the chain of events leading to the deaths of two St. Louis Park boys in Lilydale Regional Park last month.
According to the Pioneer Press, City of St. Paul officials tapped Donald M. Lewis, co-founder of the Minneapolis law firm Nilan Johnson Lewis and dean of Hamline University School of Law, to head up an independent investigation of the tragedy.
Lewis was picked, the paper reported, because of the scale and complexity of the inquiry.
The dead boys were in the park on a school field trip when they began climbing the bluff around a former clay pit. The rain-soaked ground they were climbing collapsed, triggering a landslide which killed the pair.
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