Bodies of 11 infants found in ceiling of shuttered Detroit funeral home
DETROIT – Construction workers found the bodies of 11 infants inside a defunct Detroit funeral home Friday, police say.
The crew was working on the Cantrell Funeral Home on the city’s east side when they found the bodies just before 5:30 p.m., according to The Detroit News.
Police say the bodies had been hidden in the ceiling of the Mack Avenue business – eight inside a cardboard box and three others in individual bags inside a casket.
In late April of 2018, state inspectors ordered the funeral home to close after finding “deplorable” conditions that included moldy, unrefrigerated bodies in various states of decomposition, according to MLive.com.
Michigan State Police and the Wayne County Medical examiners responded to the former funeral home Friday.
LARA shut down Cantrell Funeral Home in April for multiple violations. These violations included improper storage of embalmed bodies, two of which were in an advanced stage of decomposition, according to a press release from LARA.
CNN attempted to contact the funeral home, but the number led to a call center at a different company.
A police investigation is ongoing.
CNN contributed to this report.
Michigan man found guilty of shooting at teen who asked for directions
A Michigan man who fired a gun at a teenager asking for directions was found guilty Friday of assault with intent to do great bodily harm in the April incident, which was captured on video in vivid detail.
The jury at Oakland County Circuit Court also found Jeffrey Craig Zeigler, 53, guilty of possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
Zeigler had been on trial on a charge of assault with intent to murder for shooting at 14-year-old Brennan Walker, who was not hurt.
Brennan was walking alone to school on April 12 after he missed the bus. As he trekked the 4 miles to Rochester High School in Rochester Hills, about 20 miles north of Detroit, he got lost and knocked on the doors of several houses, he said.
The teen went up to Zeigler’s home and knocked on the door a few times.
A woman came to the door, yelling at him, he told CNN affiliate WDIV.
“I was trying to explain to that I wanted to get directions to go to my school,” he said. The man eventually came out with a shotgun and fired one shot at the teen who was running away.
Brennan said he fled when he saw the man with the shotgun.
Color footage of the shooting, which WDIV said was from home security video, was played in court this week. It showed Brennan walking up to the door, wearing a backpack.
The video, which had no sound, shows him waiting a few moments, then running away toward the street. Out of the right hand side of the frame a man emerges, shirtless and in jeans. He is carrying a shotgun.
As the boy escapes at the top of the frame, the man raises the weapon. A few seconds pass, and he fires, the recoil knocking his torso backward.
He lowers the gun, steps out on to the porch, and looks in the direction the boy fled before turning back toward the house.
Zeigler told police the gun went off after he fell backward, causing his finger to inadvertently hit the trigger, according to court testimony from an officer.
In April, Brennan’s mother told WDIV that she believed there was a racial component to the case. Zeigler is white. Brennan is black.
“It definitely was a hate crime,” she said at the time.
Zeigler’s attorney, Robert Morad, told CNN after Friday’s verdict that the conviction of the lesser charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm “showed that the jury believed that my client wasn’t trying to kill Brennan Walker, which was obviously one of the things we argued.”
Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 13, Morad said, adding it was too early to say whether they are considering an appeal.
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Kanye West returns to Twitter with a ‘mind control’ rant after one-week hiatus
Kanye West’s break from social media lasted all of seven days.
After a bizarre week that included a highly publicized meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office and a spontaneous trip to Uganda, West returned to Twitter to talk “mind control.”
The controversial rapper opted out of social media last week after catching heat for an equally peculiar pro-Trump rant following his appearance on the season premiere of “Saturday Night Live.”
In a series of Twitter videos shared Saturday, West gave his unfiltered thoughts on the negative effects of social media in a nine-minute live video of him talking directly to the camera.
“I just want to talk about mind control,” West began. “You know, when people try to influence you through social media and try to tell you what to do, or if you post something that’s, like, positive on Instagram, it gets taken down if it’s not a part of a bigger agenda.”
He continued: “That’s like mind control. That’s the echo chamber. That’s trying to control you based off of incentivizing you and based off of you getting enough likes. That’s the poison that’s happening with social media.”
West discussed his self-proclaimed genius-level IQ score (“Straight up Sigmund Freud, Tesla vibes”), his dislike of people telling him what to do (“Feel like they’re touching my brain”) and compared the policing of his thoughts to a woman’s right to consent (“She wants to be in control of her body and choose who she wants to give it to. … I feel like that with my mind”).
“Imagine you, like, cut your skull open and somebody like touched your brain with their hand, how that would hurt you,” West asked. “That’s how it hurts me when people try to tell me what to do when I’m going from my heart. Try to tell me what to say. This ain’t programmed.”
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Video shows autistic child dragged through school hallway by teacher and nurse
Jo Grayson said she was alarmed when her son, Thatcher, came home from his middle school covered in cuts and bruises.
Earlier in the day, Thatcher’s teacher texted Grayson to alert her to an incident involving him. But it did nothing to prepare Grayson for what she saw hours later when Thatcher came home and she discovered the marks on his body.
After she obtained surveillance video that explained the marks, she became appalled. The footage shows Thatcher, who is autistic and mostly nonverbal, being dragged down a school hallway by his teacher and the school nurse.
“I just don’t understand how someone can do this to a child, let alone to a person with disabilities,” Grayson told CNN. “I want the school district to take action and not just install cameras in every room of each school, but also train their staff accordingly so they know how to handle children with disabilities, or rough situations with children like Thatcher.”
Thatcher is a sixth-grader at Tates Creek Middle School in Lexington, Kentucky. Because of his condition, he’s not able to tell his parents when something is wrong. But the photos Grayson posted to her Facebook account speak volumes.
Grayson initially didn’t make much out of the incident when she received the teacher’s text in mid-September.
“The nurse and I had to physically help him get up off the gym floor,” the text read. “He wouldn’t move and other kids were trying to play. I apologize if he has marks on him.”
Grayson says she thought the behavior sounded a little strange for Thatcher, but replied by thanking the teacher for informing her of the incident.
The situation changed that evening.
“We were getting ready for bed, and when I pulled his shirt off, I saw cuts and bruises on his body. That didn’t look like marks of someone helping him get up,” Grayson said.
Concerned at this point, Grayson rushed to the school the following class day to get clear answers on what exactly had happened. She was able to request surveillance video of the incident through an open request filed by her lawyer.
“I saw both his teacher and the school nurse just pulling and dragging my son, along with his service dog, all throughout the hallway,” Grayson said.
Grayson confirmed with CNN that she in fact filed a report with the county district attorney. However, at this time, the report is under the review of the DA and no warrants have been issued.
According to Fayette County Public Schools, the teacher involved in the incident is no longer employed at the school as of October 2.
Officials with the school district provided a statement.
“Incidents of this nature — in which an employee is acting outside of the district’s expectations and out of line with the training provided — are isolated. Our training is very explicit that physical restraint is a last resort only to be used when a student is a danger to themselves or others. The training also shows employees the proper ways to hold or transport students. In this case, neither of those standards were met,” Lisa Deffendall, a spokeswoman for the school district, said in the statement.
“There is absolutely no tolerance for the conduct of the employee in this incident, and while we cannot discuss specifics, we do want to reassure our families that we take any situations of this nature very seriously,” she added.
When asked what the district would expect of an employee if a child who is nonverbal refused to move, the school district said the following:
“It is difficult to generalize the district’s expectations for responding to a situation like this because every child with special needs has an individual plan outlining the best evidence-based strategies to support their success. However, we can say that some recommended strategies would include use of wait time, visuals, a student’s individual communication system, and system of least prompts.”
As for the nurse, the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department said she has been placed on paid administrative leave “pending investigation.”
“We continue to work with Fayette County Public Schools to investigate the matter. We cannot comment further at this time,” Kevin Hall, a spokesman for the department, said in a statement.
Thatcher returned to school once his mother learned the teacher is no longer employed there, and she said she hopes the incident encourages other parents to speak up for their children.
Aaron Hernandez was sexually abused as young boy, report says
An investigative series by The Boston Globe revealed that former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who killed himself in prison last year, was sexually molested as a young boy.
The previously undisclosed information came from the Globe’s “Spotlight Team” from interviews, thousands of court and government records, and text messages, emails and images Hernandez sent and received while in a Massachusetts prison, where he was serving a life sentence without parole for the 2013 slaying of onetime friend Odin Lloyd.
The newspaper’s six-part series, the first installment of which was published Saturday, included details about Hernandez’s childhood, sexuality and drug use. Among them:
• Hernandez and his brother, Jonathan, were often beaten by their father, Dennis, while growing up in Bristol, Connecticut. The beatings were sometimes related to Dennis Hernandez’s drinking.
• Aaron Hernandez started smoking marijuana in high school with a teammate before school, before football practice and after games.
• The teammate, Dennis SanSoucie, told the Globe that he had a sexual relationship with Hernandez in junior high and high school and that the two tried to hide it.
• Jonathan Hernandez told the Globe that Aaron Hernandez disclosed later in his adult life that he had been molested as a young boy. One of Aaron’s lawyers in his criminal case also said Aaron spoke to him of sexual abuse as a child. Neither was willing to identify the perpetrator to the Globe.
• Aaron Hernandez was close to a cousin, Tanya Singleton, and he was crushed when he learned that his mother, Terri, was in a serious romantic relationship with Singleton’s husband, Jeff Cummings.
The report Saturday included information gleaned from recordings of nearly 300 phone calls Hernandez made from jail over a six-month period.
Hernandez was found hanging from a bed sheet in his cell on April 19, 2017, just days after he was found not guilty of two counts of murder in the killing of two men in a drive-by shooting outside a Boston nightclub five years earlier.
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Teyana Taylor Dry-Humps Fan Onstage At Toronto Concert: Watch
Keep that same energy: grind mode.
A clip of the lapdance was uploaded online, showing the entertainer getting busy as only she knows how. The woman who was sitting in the chair was completely shook. Her reaction is understandable considering the way Teyana laid it down that night. The woman laid back and fanned her face while Taylor hopped on top of her. The singer proceeded to grind on the woman and upped it to another level when she twerked on her, bouncing up and down in between hair flips.
The show was a success. The KTSE star thanked her Canadian fans for the good vibes. According to her, the enthusiasm shown by concertgoers in the 6 was unique in its intensity.
“But ain’t got no mannersssss ??♀️??♀️??♀️??♀️??♀️ yooooo toronto y’all level of energy was damn near unmatched if I do say so my self!!! And my petunias angels rocked dat shit “
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No Food, No FEMA: Hurricane Michael’s Survivors Are Furious
Miles and miles of Florida are obliterated, and residents have been left to fend for themselves with little help from the government.
PANAMA CITY, Florida—Hurricane Michael’s sudden transformation into an unprecedented storm haunts everyone on the Florida Panhandle who lived through it. “It was raw power,” says Panama City resident Walter McAlster, “you felt you were in it, not outside and didn’t know if you would live through it. You knew that everything was going to change the landscape forever.”
And it did, in the space of three hours.
The destruction is everywhere, at every corner, as far as the eye can see. Mexico Beach, where the hurricane’s eyewall slammed into Florida with 140 mph winds, is flattened. Panama City, gem of the Emerald Coast, looks like a bomb has been dropped on it. It is now a desolate landscape of toppled power poles, transformers, electrical lines, severed trees, and metal roofings, twisted and tangled into a sea of debris. Nearly all homes, businesses, stores, banks, schools are severely damaged or destroyed, skeletal remains with blown out windows or crushed facades. To residents, it is unrecognizable.
blown out windows or crushed facades. To residents, it is unrecognizable.
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Parents Of R. Kelly Victim Launch ‘Abuse Hotline’ Against The R&B Singer
The family of one of R. Kelly’s alleged abuse victims has created an “abuse hotline” for victims to report their encounters with the R&B singer.
Tim and Jonjelyn Savage first accused R. Kelly of brainwashing their daughter, Joycelyn, and holding her against her will in a July 2017 Buzzfeed article. The Savages said they haven’t seen their daughter since December 2016 and last spoke to her on the phone in December 2017. Though Joycelyn has come out to dispute her parents’ claims, she still remains with the singer.
According to Mic, the Savages have been inundated with calls from women or parents with their own stores of abuse by the R&B singer since the Buzzfeed article. Because many were too scared to speak out, it pushed the couple to launch the “R. Kelly abuse hotline” this week.
“One reason I feel that he’s been getting away with a lot of the allegations for the last two decades is because people feel he has money and power and they don’t have the resources to fight him,” Jonjelyn Savage told Mic.
R. Kelly has been accused of sexual misconduct for over two decades, but the calls for him to be held accountable have grown in the past two years. An online campaign to #MuteRKelly has picked up steam, resulting in several concerts being canceled. The singer was also called out earlier this year by influential women like Ava DuVernay, Shonda Rhimes, and #MeToo movement founder, Tarana Burke.
In July, he released a 19-minute song called, “I Admit,” apparently bearing his soul about a slew of topics from his illiteracy and his predilection for young women, to his current status as “a broke-a** legend” and “the most disrespected artist” in the game.
He has also denied all of the accusations against him, calling the recent #MuteRKelly and Time’s Up campaigns against him an “attempted public lynching.”
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Courtsey of Andrea Kelly
Kelly’s wife, Andrea files for an order of protection alleging Kelly hit her. They later reconcile.
His ex-wife, Andrea Kelly, has also shared her own story of abuse while marriage, telling The View earlier this month that she wanted to bring “validity” to the women who have come out with sexual abuse claims against him.
The new hotline allows callers to leave a message detailing their allegations. As more people come forward, the Savages say they want to build a case against R. Kelly.
“There’s no age limit on being mind-controlled, drugged, brainwashed, there’s no age limit on that,” Jonjelyn Savage said. “So the more we have more young ladies or even men, or parents that are willing to speak out, the more we think it can help our daughter as well as helping other victims.”
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Fran Drescher wants Cardi B to join her in a reboot of The Nanny
Fran Drescher is ready to make money moves with Cardi B.
On Wednesday’s episode of PeopleTV’s Chatter, Drescher revealed that she’d love to reboot her ’90s sitcom The Nanny alongside the rapper behind “Bodak Yellow” and “I Like It.”
“I want to do a sitcom with Cardi B,” Drescher said. “Wouldn’t she be great as my daughter?”
Fans have been calling for Cardi and Drescher to link up since at least December, when the rapper gave off Nanny vibes during an appearance on The Tonight Show. Cardi also shared an Instagram post paying fashion homage to the actress last month, and Drescher, 61, said all the buzz got her thinking about teaming up for a potential revival.
After all, they do have a few similarities.
“I got my juices flowing and thought, ‘Wait a minute, she’s from New York, we both have funny voices, she could be my daughter!’” Drescher said.
Drescher noted that because her onscreen love interest, Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy), was white, Cardi’s character would have to have a different father. Despite the biological minutiae, however, fans have been all in on the idea on Twitter.
According to Drescher, networks have little interest in a reboot of The Nanny, but she has previously mentioned discussions with co-creator and real-life ex-husband Peter Marc Jacob about getting the adventures of Fran Fine, a sassy caretaker from Flushing, Queens, back on TV.
“We’re talking about it. Peter and I are talking about it,” Drescher said in June. “We’re working on a very big project. It’s going to be very exciting for the fans, but I’m not at liberty to announce it yet. But it’s going to be big.”
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T.I. says his patience for Kanye West is dead and gone after Trump meeting
(CNN)As recently as May, rapper T.I. was still firmly on Team Kanye, but that ended Thursday with the latter’s much-publicized trip to the White House.