A paparazzi photographer filed a $25 million lawsuit against Mike Tyson on Monday stemming from a scuffle with the boxer at LAX airport last year, RadarOnline.com reports. The incident took place on November 11, 2009.The photographer, Antonia Echevarria, filed his lawsuit at Los Angeles Superior Court. He claims he sustained several injuries and that the boxer told him, "I will kill you." Echevarria alleges Tyson went after him at LAX which resulted in injuries to his face, brain, spine, neck and other parts of his body.
Tyson was traveling through LAX on his way to Las Vegas with his wife, mother-in-law, assistant and 10-month-old baby daughter when the incident occurred.
At the time of the fight, Tyson and Echevarria placed each other under citizen's arrest and made complaints of misdemeanor battery. Tyson was taken into custody while Echevarria went to a local hospital for treatment of a minor cut on his forehead.
The ex-boxer's attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, released a statement saying Tyson was aggressively followed by Echevarria who bumped into the stroller of Tyson's baby and disobeyed orders by airport personnel to leave the boxer alone.
"Mr. Tyson and his family were without security and attempting to make a connecting flight when they were aggressively approached by a paparazzo intent on provoking and harassing them. The paparazzo repeatedly refused to comply with the orders and directives of airport personnel to leave the family alone and continued to aggressively pursue the Tyson family--at one point colliding with the baby's stroller," part of Holley's statement said.
"Mr. Tyson remains confident that this matter will be appropriately addressed as the witnesses are interviewed and the facts borne out," she concluded.
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