Retail giant Target is being sued by a California woman alleging her 22-yer-old, who had Asperger's Snydrone, killed himself just days after being wrongfully accused of stealing by his former employer. 

Virginia Gentles accuses the retailer of false imprisonment, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress after Graham Gentles was "handcuffed and paraded through the store in front of his all his coworkers and customers" upon reporting for work on July 15.  

"He said that it was the worst day of his life because he didn't understand what was going on," added Virginia Gentles. "They humiliated him. Umm, that was their purpose."

A cashier at the Pasadena store, Graham Gentles made his way to the rooftop of a nearby hotel and leaped to his death just three days after being confronted by police and store security workers. 

"The intention of the policy is to humiliate and shame, and in this particular instance the policy had its intended effect with tragic results," family attorney Patrick McNicholas said of the company's public arrest of Gentles known by store employees as the "walk of shame."

McNicholas further alleges  Graham Gentles was met by police and Target security at the front of the store and even roughed up police. Eventually, he was escorted to the police station, but was never officially charged with a crime.

"He said, 'Mom, I've never stolen,'" recalled Virginia Gentles. "He said, 'They did the walk of shame, I had to do the walk of shame. But they only do that when people steal and I've never stolen a thing.'"

The suit also maintains the "walk of shame" tactic is one regularly used at Target stores when employees are suspected of theft.

"One of the primary purposes of this lawsuit is that Target stops the policy immediately [and] recognizes the harm that it could do," said McNicholas.