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DWI lawsuit filed by parents of high school student Robert Ogle, killed in DWI

By John Marzulli

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Apr 27, 2009 at 1:05 AM

Brendan (l.) & Mei Ogle (r.) parents of Robert Ogle,16, who was killed by a car in a hit and run. (Egan-Chin/News)

The adults who hosted a booze-filled teen bash and a motorist whose car was stolen as it idled share the blame for the drunken-driving deaths of a Queens high school standout and his buddy, a bombshell lawsuit charges.

Robert Ogle, a 16-year-old junior at Brooklyn Technical High School, was mowed down Feb. 1 by a hit-and-run driver as he walked home from a Middle Village party that had left him tipsy.

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The driver, Kenneth Guyear, was drunk and behind the wheel of a Kia Spectra he'd swiped after finding it running outside a Woodhaven Blvd. deli, cops say.

"Each person in their own way contributed to this train wreck," said the teen's dad, Brendan Ogle, who will file the wrongful-death lawsuit today in Queens Supreme Court. "If everyone had exercised better judgment, my son would be alive today."

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The Ogles' lawyer Sanford Rubenstein said he expects a jury to hash out the "appropriate percentage of responsibility" for the couple that hosted the party, Sing-Chau Fung and Yuk Lai Fung, and David Jaber, who left his running car unattended.

"They're responsible as well as [Guyear]," Rubenstein said.

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The lawsuit contends the fatal chain of events began around 1:30 a.m. when Jaber left his Kia idling while he dashed into a Super Deli. Guyear, an ex-con, hopped into the Kia and ran over Robert and his friend Alex Paul, 20, several blocks away, police say.

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Paul was walking Robert home because the teen had had too much to drink at a birthday party for the Fungs' son, according to police and the lawsuit.

Guyear, 28, who has been charged with DWI and manslaughter, is also named in the negligence lawsuit.

Jaber could not be reached, and Yuk Lai Fung declined comment.

"It's an act of negligence for a person to leave their car with the motor running and easily accessible to anyone who wants to steal it," said Scott Rynecki, another lawyer hired by the Ogles. "And if a party is going on in your house, you have an obligation to be responsible and make sure there is no underage drinking."

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