Police seek parents of 2-year-old boy found wandering
Police are searching for the parents of a 2-year-old boy who was found wandering the streets Sunday afternoon in the area of Linville Street and Summerset Avenue.
The child is described as being 2 feet 5 inches tall and approximately 45 pounds.
He is wearing a red zip-up hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and red sneakers.
Police said the child does not speak very well but that he may have the name of Fred or Franklin.
Anyone who knows the child or where his parents are located are asked to contact Detroit police at 313-596-5900.
Text messages reveal possible motive in mother, daughter’s murder
The mother of a 29-year-old Eastpointe murder victim says that her daughter was planning to have her boyfriend arrested the day before she and her 13-month-old daughter were killed.
Investigators are reviewing text messages sent by Monique Rakowski at around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday from her Eastpointe home. Rakowski and her daughter, Carmon, were found stabbed to death Thursday night.
“She was trying to get away,” said Sharon Rakowski, Monique’s mother. Monique’s family says they are now learning that her relationship with her boyfriend had reached a dangerous point before her death.
Local 4’s Shawn Ley learned that Monique was desperately texting a friend Wednesday night, saying that she and Carmon were in danger.
Sharon said that Monique’s boyfriend, C.J., had a meeting with his probation officer the next day. He was on probation for putting Monique in the hospital last summer.
Sharon says that the boyfriend feared he was going to jail because he violated his probation after getting a speeding ticket. He was worried that while he was in jail Monique and their daughter would move on with a former boyfriend, who was recently released from prison, Sharon said.
Monique’s text messages to a friend revealed a plan to have her boyfriend arrested Wednesday night.
“What their plan was, was when C.J. left the house to go get cigarettes or liquor or whatever, Monique was going to call [a friend], who was going to call his Eastpointe police friend and he would be arrested when he was out of the house and away from her and the baby,” Sharon said.
The friend who was texting Monique on Wednesday did tell a police officer about the text messages before Monique’s father found the two bodies in their home.
Monique’s boyfriend, a person of interest in the murder, turned himself in to police Friday afternoon.
Now, more of Monique’s friends are telling her mother that Monique was in a very abusive relationship. Sharon says Monique stayed silent because she wanted her boyfriend to be a father to their baby.
“She wanted a family,” Sharon said. “Her whole wish in life was to be a stay-at-home mom.”
The family says that services for Monique and Carmon will likely be held next weekend.
Dearborn police investigate alleged attack of Muslim man at Kroger
Dearborn police are investigating the alleged attack of an Arabic man at Kroger at Michigan Avenue and Greenfield Thursday night.
Many in the Arabic community believe the incident was motivated by race and religion, saying it should be treated as a hate crime.
A local shopper said she heard slurs like “Terrorist” “Rag-head” and “Go back to your country” before two white men started punching an Arab-American man at the store.
“So when this came about, the question was was this racially motivated is this another attack on Muslims,” said Osama Siblani, publisher of the Arab-American News.
Investigators are working to find what sparked the alleged assault of the man shopping with his children.
Kathy McMillan Bazzi claims to have witnessed the assault and wrote on Facebook two white men were passing by and started to make derogatory comments about Isil.
before suddenly punching the Arab man.
All of it said to have happened in front of the victim’s children.
“They’ve just been sworn at as Isil, as Muslims, as ‘Take your rag off from your head’ it seems like it’s a hate crime,” said Sufian Nabhan.
The incident is said to have started with racial slurs
Siblani believes the alleged assault is a hate crime but he’s calling for calm.
“People should not make assumptions,” he said. “They should not draw conclusions and they should not spread hearsay.
“I want an official statement, I want to see whether the police can see what I see.”
Dearborn police released this statement Friday.
“The incident is currently being thoroughly investigated to determine whether it involves a criminal assault and/or whether it was motivated, in whole or in part by, the offender(s) bias.”
So far no one has been arrested.
A Kroger spokesman says the two suspects left the store before police arrived.
“Reading the statement you just gave me, it absolutely looks like a hate crime,” said Ibrahim Elkadir.
And to many, it seems it’s happening more often.
The Kroger incident happened a night before investigators say someone intentionally set part of a Houston mosque on fire. And it follows the tragedy in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where police say 46-year-old Craig Hicks, who is white, gunned down three Muslim-American students.
While police believes the killings stemmed from an ongoing parking dispute, most Muslims believe the victims were targeted because of their religion.
Many believe what happened in Dearborn was no different. Police Chief Ronald Haddad said that his department will have full disclosure of the incident once it has been investigated.
Kroger officials said Dearborn police were at the store reviewing security camera footage Friday. Dearborn police have also reached out to state and federal law enforcement agencies to assist in the investigation.
Written by LBeasley (Lauren Beasley), Digital Producer of The Morning Heat and Sports Editor of Radio One Detroit
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