Family launches lawsuit against West Edmonton Mall, Cineplex Entertainment following teen death | CBC News

The family of a 16-year-old girl who died from hypothermia after being discovered unresponsive in the parking lot of West Edmonton Mall is suing North America's largest mall and Cineplex Entertainment. .

"I still can't believe she's gone," Jasmin's grandmother Debbie Sandberg told CBC News. .

But instead, Jasmin and a friend ended up at West Edmonton Mall and the Rec Room, which is owned by Cineplex Entertainment. .

Sandberg is not sure how her granddaughter had access to alcohol, but she said police told her that surveillance video showed Jasmin and seven other young people outside the Rec Room. .

"They were seen on the video cameras out in the parking lot of the Rec Room drinking and having snowball fights and stuff like that," Sandberg said. .

Sandberg said when police viewed the footage, they spotted Jasmin at 7:33 p.m.

to West Edmonton Mall about an intoxicated female passed out in the same parking lot area where Jasmin was ultimately discovered. .

The autopsy report said there was no CCTV coverage of the parking lot where Jasmin was found.

"The West Edmonton Mall security staff subsequently responded to the parking lot but were unable to locate anyone," the report states. .

A grader operator finally spotted Jasmin in the now-empty parking lot at 3 a.m.

Brady Dryer and his partner were close by West Edmonton Mall when the dispatch call came in. .

Not long after, Sandberg received a call from the police who told her that Jasmin was in the trauma room at the hospital with 15 people working to save her life. 

"I was the first one that held her when she was born," Sandberg said

Sandberg said that for the first week after Jasmin died, she had trouble sleeping. 

"You know I actually remember Jasmin had a school ID," Dryer said