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by Charlie LeDuff
This April 7 repost is the eighth in a daily countdown of 10 articles from this year. Links to earlier ones are at the end. It was, in retrospect, a one-way ticket to the grave. Michael Meshinski was serving a six-month bid for drunk driving in the Wayne County jailhouse in Hamtramck. He was assigned to work in the laundry, touching clothing distributed to inmates in the sprawling three-jail system that includes two buildings in Detroit and houses, on average, 1,500 inmates a day. Meshinski, when not in jail, was a 50-year-old autoworker at Ford s truck plant in Dearborn who owned a tidy little home in Taylor.
Pictured, De’Lon Wheeler and Damarion Wheeler, Detroit brothers killed in Christmas Day fire.
De’Lon Wheeler and Damarion Wheeler, Detroit brothers killed in Christmas Day fire as their mother, Demika Pinson & three other siblings survive. Cause of blaze unknown.
Two
Detroit brothers, aged six and seven, were killed in a
Christmas morning house fire, while three other siblings along with their mother managed to survive the inferno as it enveloped the family two story home.
Demika Pinson the children’s mother was forced to leap from an upstairs window holding a three-year-old in her arms. Two other siblings, an eight-year-old and ten-year-old, were badly burned in the blaze on Detroit’s east side just before 9am.
Detroit Free Press
Two boys who died in a Christmas Day house fire on Detroit s east side have been identified.
The boys are De Lon Wheeler, 7, and Damarion Wheeler, 6, according to a Detroit News interview with their mother. The Wayne County Medical Examiner s Office did not confirm their identities to the Free Press.
Two other children were injured in the fire, fire officials say.
Firefighters were dispatched to the blaze on Helen Street, near Eight Mile and Van Dyke, Friday at around 8:45 a.m.
Detroit Deputy Fire Commissioner Dave Fornell said Saturday that the fire is still under investigation but appears to be accidental. He said fire investigators plan to interview the injured children once they recover.
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