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2nd person arraigned in shooting death of Flint baby, grandmother
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
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FLINT, MI - A second person has been arraigned on a charge related to the Dec. 26 deaths of a grandmother and grandson killed in a drive-by shooting in Flint.
Michelle Harvey, 28, was arraigned Thursday, Jan. 7, in Genesee District Court on a single count of accessory after the fact to a felony in connection with the shooting deaths of Belinda Hart, 45, and her 10-month-old grandson Romelo Jones Jr.
Harvey’s bond is set at $5,000. She is scheduled to return to court for a probable cause conference Thursday, Jan. 21.
Family of slain Flint 3-year-old calls for ‘Messiah’s Law’ to strengthen penalties for those who shoot into homes and kill kids
Updated Jan 03, 2021;
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FLINT, MI As Halloween neared, Messiah Williams was looking forward to trick-or-treating in his new Baby Yoda costume. Little more than a week before he could do so, the 3-year-old boy was shot and killed when police say several men opened fire on his family’s Flint home.
Months on and with the new year dawning, Messiah’s family is hoping the state will adopt a new law in the slain boy’s name that will make it mandatory for anyone who shoots into a populated area and kills a child to be imprisoned for life without parole.
Romelo Jones Jr. and Belinda Hart died in the 600 block of Pulaski Street in Flint.
âIâm just thinking about all the peaceful times I had with him. The long nights, up until 6 a.m. I changed his first diaper,â said Romelo Jones, the babyâs father.
Hart was an autoworker.
âIâm angry to tears because she was so loved. We stood on the strike line this summer together,â said Claudia Perkins-Milton, the babyâs great-grandmother.
Police said Romelo and Hart were not the intended targets of the drive-by shooting.
âThis is our son right here. And they took him away from us and itâs hard. He didnât have anything to do with this,â Jones said.
‘It’s got to stop,’ Flint community calls for end to gun violence after 4 killed over holiday weekend
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
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FLINT, MI The Flint community is calling for an end to violence in the city after the holiday weekend left multiple people dead.
Four people were killed in Flint over the weekend, including a baby and grandmother who were killed in their sleep during a drive-by shooting.
Belinda Hart, 45, and her 10-month-old grandson Romelo Jones, Jr. were shot while sleeping in their home Saturday, Dec. 26. On the same day, 23-year-old Curdetruis Keaton-Williams was shot and killed outside of a residence and 25-year-old Naomi Anthony was found dead in a field.