90+ pounds of fentanyl seized • Pregnant woman, 2 others shot • Surrogacy contract ban repealed
TUESDAY NEWS HIT - Eastpointe police are looking for a suspect after a shooting left three people hurt Monday night.
A vehicle pulled alongside another vehicle in the area of Kelly and Stephens roads around 9 p.m., and someone started shooting.
Police said the shooting injured a pregnant woman, another woman, and a man. Both women are listed as stable, while the man is in critical condition.
Though the shooting happened on Kelly, police also focused on the area of Dijon and Beaconsfield avenues, where officers were placing more evidence markers.
90+ pounds of fentanyl seized from gas station owner
Last September, Livonia police learned that Barry Willis, who a tipster referred to as "Blue," allegedly sold heroin. The person who gave police that information said Willis owned a gas station with a car wash on Livernois in Detroit.
Authorities were able to locate the gas station near W. Grand and identify Willis. The tipster confirmed to police that Willis was the person they had purchased heroin from on multiple occasions.
After several controlled drug purchases and surveillance of Willis, investigators searched his home on Dorchester Court in Clinton Township last week. During that search, authorities allegedly found more than $130,000 in cash, watches, a gold chain, and a handgun.
That same day, investigators searched a home they believed to be Willis's stash house on Littlefield in Detroit. During that search, they found more than 90 pounds of fentanyl - enough to kill more than 20 million people, more than 6 pounds of cocaine, a pill press, drug packaging materials, scales, a handgun, and $18,000 in cash.
Michigan congressman says Gaza ‘should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’
A comment made by Congressman Tim Walberg has now gone viral after he made a comment that suggested the use of a nuclear bomb in Gaza.
"We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid," he said. "It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick."
He went onto say the same tactic should be used to defeat Putin and help Ukraine win their war.
"Genocide is not a joke, and his comments sounded genocidal," said Dawud Walid, with the Council on American-Islamic Relations Michigan.
Walberg said in a statement that his comments are being taken out of context. He then condemned the use of nuclear weapons.
"I used a metaphor to convey the need for both Israel and Ukraine to win their wars as swiftly as possible, without putting American troops in harm's way," he said. "My reasoning was the exact opposite of what is being reported: The quicker these wars end, the fewer innocent lives will be caught in the crossfire," the statement read.
Michigan surrogacy contract ban repealed
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a package of bills Monday that included a repeal of a ban on surrogacy contracts.
In passing the nine-bill package, Whitmer pitched the state as a haven for reproductive rights while slamming conservative lawmakers for voting against the bills.
"Either you support families or you don't, and it's pretty clear there's a divided line here where Democrats are making it easier to decide when and whether to start a family and how they start a family," she said after signing the Michigan Family Protection Act. "Republicans say no to all of that, and it's incredibly cruel and anti-family. It's surprising."
The bills passed along mostly party lines with two Republican senators - Sen. Jon Bumstead and Mark Huizenga - siding with Democrats.
Father alarmed over runaway twin daughters missing for 3 weeks
It's been three weeks since George Ogden last saw his twin 14-year-old daughters before they ran away.
Both Anieca and Aniya Ogden are about five feet tall and were last seen on March 8 at their dad's house. Since they left, the search for them has made little progress. All the while, their dad has grown increasingly worried about their safety.
"If they're not home, they're not safe," he said. "In the world that we're living in today, it's very unsafe. It's dangerous and they're 14 years old and these kids, they don't understand dangers that are out here lurking for them."
It's not the first time the two had run away. They had visited their grandmother in River Rouge once before when they fled. Ogden was able to get them back home - but they took off again.
They had been home for only a day when he said he took them to school. They left the same night.
"I never would have pegged them to just leave like that," he said. "As a father that's trying to raise kids on his own, it's heartbreaking."
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7 World Central Kitchen workers killed in Israeli airstrike
World Central Kitchen, the food charity founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, has suspended operations in the Gaza region after an Israeli airstrike killed seven members of their team on Monday.
The workers were killed hours after the group brought in a new shipload of food by a maritime route the United States has hoped would be an alternative lifeline for northern Gaza that has been isolated and pushed to the brink of famine by Israel’s offensive.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has acknowledged that Israeli forces carried out the strike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza. In a statement on Tuesday, he said: "Unfortunately over the last day there was a tragic incident of an unintended strike of our forces on innocent people in the Gaza Strip." He says officials are "checking this thoroughly" and "will do everything for this not to happen again."
