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Adrian, MI – A rally in Lenawee County on Friday afternoon focused on inmate healthcare, prison reform, and the inaction of our elected officials in Michigan in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
There were around 30 people gathered outside of the Gus Harrison Correctional Facility, with several activists, legislators, former inmates, and community members giving passionate speeches.
Many of the speakers… who came in from all around the map, including Detroit, Flint, and New York… called out the Michigan Legislature, the Michigan Department of Corrections Director Heidi Washington, and Governor Gretchen Whitmer to do more about the rising COVID-19 cases in correctional facilities.
32 years after ‘senseless, brutal’ slaying of two Flint musicians, Leondais Smith up for parole
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 14, 2020
Flint homicide detectives and personnel from the Michigan State Police crime lab investigate the site where the bodies of Kimbrel T. Edwards and Maurice Givens were found on Oct. 15, 1988, in this Flint Journal file photo.
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FLINT, MI Thirty-two years after a woman walking her dog near St. Agnes Catholic Church discovered the bodies of two Flint musicians sprawled dead on a football field, one of the men who pleaded guilty to beating them and running over their bodies with a stolen car is now up for parole.
Deputies ID suspect in Pontiac credit union robbery by tattoos on his face
A parolee from Pontiac has been charged in the robbery of a credit union last week Thursday, officials said.
Joshua David Hawley, 40, was charged Friday in 50th District Court with a count of bank robbery, a life felony, according to the Oakland County Sheriff s Office. A magistrate also denied Hawley bond and scheduled his next court appearance for next Tuesday.
Deputies were called to the Genisys Credit Union at 44400 Woodward near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, authorities said.
They spoke to the credit union s manager, who reported a white male with multiple tattoos on his head and face had robbed the business. He told deputies the suspect showed a teller a note demanding money and was handed $1,356 in cash.
Walter Forbes was a full-time student at Jackson Community College in 1982. He had dreams of owning a real estate development firm after graduating.
One night that year, Forbes broke up a bar fight. He didn’t know that would change his life forever.
A man involved in the bar fight shot Forbes the next day, according to court documents.
The damage the gunshot did to Forbes’ body may have taken a few months to heal, but what happened next led to him spending nearly four decades in prison, inflicting deep lifelong wounds on him and his family.
The man who shot Forbes, Dennis Hall, died in his apartment on Maple Street in Jackson in a fire that appeared to be deliberately set on July 12, 1982.