➡ A mother in Detroit lost two of her four children due to freezing in a car parked in a casino structure. The mother, who had been homeless for three months, was not in the casino for gambling but had parked there as it was a free and safe place. The tragic incident has sparked discussions about homelessness and the need for more support for struggling families. The mother had reportedly reached out for help multiple times before the tragedy occurred.
➡ A mother in Detroit lost two of her children due to hypothermia after they slept in a car in a casino parking lot. The mother, who was homeless, had reached out to various agencies and the children’s father for help, but received none. The father, who was aware of the situation, did not take the children in. The tragic incident has sparked a discussion about accountability, the need for solutions to prevent such incidents, and the importance of prioritizing children’s welfare.
➡ A man named Curry, living in the wealthy suburb of Novi, Michigan, discusses a situation involving his children who were left in a parking structure in Detroit. The mother of the children asked Curry for help, but he declined due to work and distance. The mother then reached out to the city for assistance but was denied. The situation is under police investigation and has sparked a debate about responsibility and compassion in the face of tragedy.

This was a story that I initially reported on Monday. Right. Because to bring you guys up to speed, a mother in Detroit, two of her four kids froze to death inside of a car that didn’t have any heat inside of a casino parking structure. Now, initially I thought that maybe she had a gambling problem. She left the kids in the car in order to go do her thing, and then that’s when it happened. That’s not what happened. All right. Had nothing to do with gambling, had nothing to do with any of that. Now, as we continue to see this whole story unfold, there’s more to it.

So I want to play all of the parts to it and then we gonna put it together as a puzzle after that. We go into Trump’s press conference yesterday to where he breaks down Ukraine, Russia and all of that. Right? All right, so again, I shared this story on Monday and I want to start going into exactly what happened as far as all of the parts. Now, when I say exactly what happened in all the parts, I’m talking about they found a father of the children, they talked to her family, and there was a press conference from Detroit officials that they basically went through when they tried to take responsibility for what happened with the kids.

Okay, so make sure y’all hit a like for the algorithm. Subscribe to the channel and turn on your notifications. We’re gonna start off with the woman saying and giving her thoughts and a statement of what happened and the fact that she reached out to help or reached out for help. Let’s get it first, breaking news in the sibling tragedy that shook metro Detroit after two kids died of apparent hypothermia in a casino parking garage. Welcome to 7 News Detroit at 6. I’m Carolyn Clifford. I’m Simon Shake at this story has devastated our area. Just moments ago, 7 News Detroit reporter Darren Cunningham talking with the mother of those two children.

Darren joining us live right now from Detroit’s west side with more from their conversation. And Darren, so many people talking about this. This is simply heartbreaking, very heartbreaking. Carolyn Simon, Moments ago I did have the opportunity to speak to Tatiana Williams, who lost her nine year old and her two year old also in the vehicle at the time, her 4 year old and her 8 year old. Also Tatiana’s mother and her two siblings, a 13 year old and a 17 year old, also stay in that vehicle. She tells me that she has been homeless for three months and that she is trying to do better for herself, trying to get back on her feet.

She told me she’s a CNA A medical assistant, and that she was actually about to start a new job tomorrow. And so I did speak with her and I asked her. One of the questions I did ask her was to take me back to yesterday. Yesterday I woke them up to wake them up from school. My son wasn’t moving. And I kept saying, freddie, please get up, please, please, for me, just get up, don’t do this to me. And I tried to give him cpr because I’m a senior and a medical assistant. I’ve been working there since I was 17.

I tried to give him CPR and I was just giving him CPR. I just kept saying, petty, don’t leave me, don’t leave me, please. I saw the green and brown stuff come out of his mouth. I instantly rushed him to the hospital. I was yelling out the window, stop, stop, stop. We gotta get through traffic. My babies, he’s dying. We get to the hospital, I told valet, can you go get some help? He took two months. So I got out the car, get help. They came to the car instantly, grab my baby on said, get a stretch, he’s not breathing.

Help. Cold, blue. Everybody tried. I didn’t Even know my 2 year old was dying. I was in it with my 9 year old. And they brought her in right after they pronounced him dead. And my mama came to me, she said, yaya. That’s what we call her, but her name is Amelia. We just call her Yaya. Yo, let me say this. I know that we a tough group in here and this, this segment of the show is not to place blame, but it’s really to understand because it already happened. And so if you see this woman’s hand shaking, I’ll show it.

Let me back up for a little. Right after they pronounce him dead. That’s not. You can’t fake that, bro. You can’t fake that. I mean, you may not see a whole bunch of tears rolling down her face. And I’m not sure if even if you’ve seen a bunch of tears rolling down her face, it’s not gonna make the situation any different. And I don’t think that it’s going to change your perspective or your perception of her. So let’s, let’s try to figure it out and put it together because the goal at this point is try trying to prevent this from ever happening again.

All right? A lot of these people, honestly, that are having these children, these people don’t have the same sense that we do. They are walking around, they think that they. Okay, think about it. From this Lens. Think about, look at it from this lens. When we grew up in the hood, when, when we were raised right, and this was before the social media era, I was blessed enough to be raised without all of the cell phones. It was a luxury. Drug dealers were the only ones that had car phones inside of their car. I was born in 1982.

I graduated high school in 2000. I was blessed to be raised in a space to where we existed before pre social media, right? And the only thing that we knew was what our environment and our culture was. It didn’t unlock for me until my father actually sent me to private school during middle school that I realized that the world was much bigger than Cedar Point because that was really the only place that I had ever traveled to outside of Dawson, Georgia, when I was younger to actually go and see people that came before me and my family, you know, my great grandfather and all of that other type of stuff, because they were still living in Dawson, Georgia, but largely the hood was the only thing that I knew.

You know, the world was only as big, is 6 mile to 8 mile, Livernois to Wyoming, hooping every day. And so what we thought was normal, what I thought was success, was nothing like what I experienced today. And so a lot of these people is normal to have children out of wedlock. It’s normal to not have nothing. If you was having a house, what we thought was a big house. When I go back and drive in the hood and I see a house and I’m like, man, that house is so small. How do we even live there? How all we.

So you gotta. You gotta try to. You have to try to look at it from a different lens than just always putting blame and responsibility. Because they may be wrong, but in their mind they right. They may be wrong, but in their mind they’re right. And so her lens of looking at things may be completely different than how we see it. Doesn’t make it right from a cultural or societal perspective. However, I don’t think that killing her in this moment won’t bring the children back. And my mama came to me, she said, yay. That’s what we call her, but her name is Amelia.

We just call her Yaya. And they said she wasn’t breathing. And they pronounced her dead, too. I asked everybody for help. I called out of state, I called cities. I didn’t know I called cities. People asked me to call. I even asked Detroit. I’ve been on campus for the longest. Everybody now wants to help. After I lost two kids, I’ve been Asked for help. I feel like it was daytime. I did everything I was supposed to do. They had everything, Everything. Y’all said, why? Somebody saying, anton, why was she at the casino? That’s the question. It’s a parking structure.

She wasn’t at the casino itself. It was a free parking structure. Especially when you’re in the city and you downtown, it’s not a lot of places that you can actually park your car without getting told. So a lot of people actually park at the casino if they got an electric car to charge their car or a lot of people park there overnight because they know that they’re not going to get bothered on the street. It’s a lot of police presence in the area. So you’re less likely to, you know, have any kind of problems with anybody as far as like trying to do crime and stuff like that.

So it could be a multitude of reasons why you parked in that particular parking structure. Snow rhyme or reason why she parked in a casino parking structure. It was downtown and Greek Town, Hollywood Casino, which used to be called Greek Town Casino in Detroit. They wanted only thing I didn’t have was a house. But from electronics to clothes, anything they asked me for, my kids didn’t even get whooped. I lost the one who made me a mother. I lost a two year old. It hurt losing two kids in one night. You know, I don’t wish this on nobody.

And if you can get help, please go get help. Because I don’t want nobody else to go through what I’m feeling. Just wherever you can get help from, if it’s not from the city to state, no other city or state, just go like you don’t have to. You don’t have to suffer. A lot of people. I see you five Brown. Five Brown says it’s her fault. Two, she had more than two kids. She had five kids. Four or five kids or whatever like that. Is that the only conversation that we can have? I don’t think it goes without saying.

When I did this initial story on Monday, we already assigned blame. It’s always going to be the parents fault that whatever the kids suffer through, Nobody can dispute that. How many times do we beat a dead horse? I’m the type of person, after I hold you accountable, I want to actually find a solution to where we can prevent this from happening again. If it’s not solutions based, if the only thing that we do is continue to assign blame, then I think that we do ourselves a disservice as a culture and as a society. You know, I’m gonna go over to the next portion of this story.

When I see y’all say some of the stuff that y’all say in the chat, I have to wonder if we become so desensitized and mean as a society to where the only thing that we can say is call people names and stuff like that. I don’t think that she’s a demon. I think that she’s impoverished. I think that she’s irresponsible. I think that she actually did like her kids and love her kids. And I think that she’s ignorant and I think that she is misguided. But it doesn’t absolve her from being responsible. But I don’t. I don’t think that she’s a demon.

Let’s pivot. I want to go over to the father and I want to talk about what it is that he had to say about this situation because there’s multiple layers to the story. And so if we’re going to have a conversation, we have to have a conversation across the board. So the father did pop up. And the father, I guess they found that. And I haven’t even seen this yet, so I definitely want to review it with you guys also. But the father did pop up. They found a father. And this is what he had to say.

After learning two of his kids died from exposure to the cold in a casino parking lot. Yesterday, 7News Detroit reporter Darren Cunningham spoke to the mother of those two kids about the tragic situation yesterday. I woke them up to wake them up from school. We got this part. Tonight Darren is getting the father’s side, please. Well, tonight Darren is getting the father’s side of this story. Hearing about the moment he learned two of his children had passed away. Darnell Curry senior wiped away tears while talking with me about his children, Darnell Jr. And Amelia, and the distressing phone call he says he took from their mother, Tatiana Williams.

On Monday, I went to the gym. Soon as I got on the treadmill, she called saying, can I make it to the hospital right now? They got him. Was hoping it was a sick joke, but it wasn’t. According to Detroit Police, 9 year old Darnell Jr. And 2 year old Amelia died while sleeping in a vehicle at the Hollywood Casino at Greektown parking garage. Investigators say the cause appears to be hypothermia, a tragedy stemming from homelessness. I tried. I asked for help. I asked everybody, even people out in the state. But I tried. I tried to keep hotels, I tried to pay people to stay there.

It wasn’t working for me. You know, people just didn’t like too many kids that they hold. I spoke with the children’s mother Tuesday evening. She told me she’s been living in her vehicle for three months along with her four kids, her mother, and two teenage siblings. She says she reached out to Curry, who’s the father of three of her children. I asked him, I said, can you get your kids for me? I said, I need help. You know, I’m homeless. On the kep. A room this long, I couldn’t keep it no more. They were homeless. Had.

Had Tatiana. Had Tatiana ever reached out asking to. No, she did not. Well, she said, can I get them? Can I get them just to get them? And can I get them because y’all homeless? That’s two different things. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, see, See, and that’s why I want to get the whole story before I start calling people demons. That’s why I want to get the whole story. Because, see, now y’all can’t start to just assign blame to the mother because she’s reached out for help. It’s been confirmed by the city of Detroit that not only did she reach out to the city, she reached out to state agencies.

She reached out to out of state agencies. She reached out to the father of the child, and she said, listen, I’m homeless. I can’t do it the way that I’m doing it, and I need you to help me to take care of these. If you can get these kids, even if he got them temporarily until she got back on her feet. See, y’all want to sit there and say, what? Because I, you know me, I’m an equal accountability partner, so I don’t have no bias at all. Y’all want to sit there and say, well, where’s her tears? This dude is standing there like it ain’t even no big deal.

He’s standing there like it’s a relief. He’s standing there like it’s a relief. Okay, so if she reached out to help from everybody, because he just confirmed that she reached out, and he’s saying, well, if she reached out for the kids or she reached out because she homeless, it’s two different things. What you mean is two different things? About a week and a half ago, we had a live stream on after hours. And on after hours, I said, because we were talking about Tia Maori, right? And everybody in the chat was against me and Carrie because this wasn’t even a couple weeks ago.

I think it was more than a couple weeks ago. Everybody in the chat was against me and Carrie because I said that regardless of what Tia Maori’s behavior was, I am all for keeping the family together. So I am always going to caution on the side of what’s best for the children instead of always focusing 100 on holding somebody else accountable because it doesn’t change the outcome of the thing that’s the most meaningful to me, and it’s the children. Everybody was against me, but you know me, I don’t care. I’m a stand on business based off of what I believe.

When I said that, I think that it was more important to first err on the side of what’s best for the children. I seen a bunch of guys in the chat that said to me, no, hold her accountable. It doesn’t matter. You can go and create a new family, go and do this, go and do that. And it kind of broke my heart because it kind of showcases the mindset and the mentality of people that have actually gone through issues and problems with the mother of their children. And then that then is extended across the board towards every other situation.

That’s how they view life. She reached out to the child’s father. So I want y’all to have the same energy for the father as you do for the mother. It wasn’t like he didn’t know. It wasn’t like he wasn’t aware. It wasn’t like she didn’t actually call him. Because you can hold her accountable for the negligence of the child. But at the same time, or do you got that same energy? Do you got that same energy for the father? An equal accountability smoke giver or equal accountability partner means that we don’t operate in bias. We got to hold everybody to the same standards.

He’s sitting there like it ain’t a big deal with a Nike fleece on. Got all of the. All the clothing on in the world. He laid there and put a baby in her. This dude is hanging out at the gym, but you can’t put no effort into your. Most guys that I know want their kids. They fight for their kids. It’s the family court system that then prevents them from being able to get their kids. That’s why I say that we gotta update the family court laws. He didn’t want his kids based off of what I see right now.

He said she had been homeless for three months. See, I saw it. That’s what I saw about three months. But she ain’t never said nothing to me. Nothing. Autumn, other side stories. They can cut all that. No she did not. Curry, who lives in Novi, says Williams, never. Now listen, I want to. I want y’all to hear something again. But she did not. Curry, who lives in Novi, he lives in Novi. Now, for everybody here that is from Michigan, that is from metro Detroit, everybody here that is from Michigan, that is from metro Detroit, she was in an inner city.

He was in Novi. He lives in Novi. Novi is a very, very wealthy suburb. It is a well put together place. It is not a dusty place at all. Some of you guys may not be familiar with, with the areas, but Detroit, like every other city, has suburbs that is surrounding it. And we call it Metro Detroit. Novi, West Bloomfield. Novi literally is almost directly connected. And next to West Bloomfield, I have a home inside of West Bloomfield. Novi is a very nice place. You’re telling me that you stay in Novi, Michigan, Gorgeous area, massive houses, Very, very big houses over in Novi.

And I’m not saying that you live in a big house, but what I am telling you is that you doing okay. If you and Nova your kids asleep in a parking structure in Detroit, the context matters. This is why I’m not quick to judge. Holding somebody accountable and judging them is two different things. We all need to judge, but we gotta wait till we get all of the information before we start to get into that. Says Williams never specified why she wanted to drop their kids off to him. She just X cannot get them for a couple days.

But I told her I’m working and all that and I’m out here. We’re not close to each other, so I couldn’t. But she knows all my family is right around the corner from her dog. She see it hit different now. It hit. He would be better off not even getting on camera. Him jumping on here was probably the worst thing that I could ever hear. She said, hey, can you get the kids for a while? Can you get them for a couple days or whatever. She said that she was about to start a new job and all of this stuff, and he told her no.

He told her no. He told her no. He told her no. She reached out for help. You can’t say that she lying. He just. He just substantiated exactly what she said that she did. He told her no. He said, I’m out here. He got the nice Nike fleece on nicely. New braided, nice coat, all of that. She reached out. He told her no. The negligence needs to be extended across the board. She probably put him out and he stayed with family. Look at you. Y’all make any excuse. Y’all make Any excuse. We gonna get to the super chat shortly.

He told her no. Did she reach out to any of your family? No, she did not. And she knows she could have like, like we always used to do. He says the last time he held his children was a month or two ago and that they typically FaceTime moments he will miss. And there’s a, you know, police investigation into this. What is it you would like to see come of this? Obviously nothing’s going to bring back your nine year old and your two year old even matter to me. Can’t get them back. So it’s whatever. Darren Cunningham, seven News.

All right, so y’all ready to move over to the next part of the story? Family is speaking on it too. No, no, no, no. Y’all wanted to add this conversation. Let’s have it all. Let’s make it all the way to it. Let’s get to the cousins, let’s get to the father, let’s get to the family members, get to everybody. Let’s get to everybody. I’m with it. Y’all with it. Y’all ready? Let’s get to it. My cousin made a mistake. And look at how the world is judging her. The cousin of the mother who took her five children and their grandmother to the ninth parking lot level of the Hollywood casino early Monday morning.

And when the gas ran out of their car, so did the heat. And two of her kids, a nine year old boy and a two year old girl, froze to death. She asked for help. She asked the right people. She, she was scared of what the world would think of her. So she did privately the right thing. She asked the city and what they do, they told her they couldn’t help her. And the mayor acknowledged that because of this incident, he is asking the deputy mayor as well as the housing director to review this situation and then come back with policies to help those who need housing.

If during the day you are in danger of homelessness, you call the hotline and spell and well publicized. 866-313-2520. But if it’s after 6 o’clock at night and you’ve an incident’s happened, you’ve been pushed out of the house, you’re in an emergency situation, go to your police precinct. So the now her family is placing blame on everybody else saying that, oh, she asked for help, she did this, man, Listen, bro, Listen, man, oh man, man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man. This is such a tragedy. This is very much a tragedy. This is unfortunate.

I don’t like this story. It bothers me. It bothers me a lot of times what, how irresponsible people are. It bothers me also when you guys sometimes don’t have any compassion in you whatsoever. I don’t know if you guys are. You so used to watch Commando movies that you think that this is not real life. But it is real life, and it is unfortunate. And I do wish that, that we look at things a little bit differently and we are. We are a little bit more compassionate. Two things can be true at the same time. My favorite saying in the world is two things to be true at the same time.

And the things that can be true in this situation is you can both hold her accountable and say that it’s her fault. But at the same time, we need to be open minded to who is really who. We really extend and blame to.
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