It's hard to believe what happens in Detroit. Recently, it was a man with a bullet hole in his chest declared dead of "natural causes." Now this.
The nine-months-pregnant Detroit woman who was kidnapped in Warren, taken to Detroit, set on fire and shot early Saturday went into labor, police said Monday evening.
The 22-year-old was due in three weeks, but went into labor at about 4:30 p.m. Monday, said Warren Police Deputy Commissioner Louis Galasso. She has burns on her torso, face and back and was being treated at a Detroit Medical Center hospital.
Galasso lauded the woman for her quick thinking -- she played dead after she was shot and drove to a gas station about four miles away to call for help. [read more]
You just can't make up stuff like this.
And how can you describe the man as "father?" I can think of a lot of words to describe him, but "father" is not one of them. Depraved because he was deprived? No, simply depraved. A sociopath.
Unfortunately, Detroit, despite it's plummeting population, still has one of the highest absolute number of murders in the nation and by far the highest rate of murder. I worked there about 20 years ago. I never go back except to use I-75 going south... and then only on weekends when traffic moves along at posted speeds.
You can cite all of the statistics about Detroit being safer than driving a car, but I don't have idiots like that guy in my car.
See what I mean?
You can cite all of the statistics about Detroit being safer than driving a car, but I don't have idiots like that guy in my car.
1 dead, 2 wounded after gunman fires into crowd in downtown Detroit
See what I mean?