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Prosecutor says there have been four possible homicides since COVID-19 pandemic hit area

A 27-year-old Flint man has been charged with second-degree murder of his mother, resisting and obstructing police, tampering with evidence, felon in possession of a firearm, and three related felony firearm charges.

Police were called around midnight April 10 to a house on Cherokee Avenue where they found a 51-year-old woman deceased on the living room couch with a gunshot wound in the head.

The 27-year-old and the woman’s other adult son were detained at the scene. The other son has not been charged with a crime.

“Any time it’s alleged that a son does something that results in the death of his mother, that’s bad,” said Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton. “In this particular set of facts, he was in the house with his mother and his brother was there, too. The gun discharged, and she died. She was hit by a bullet. We have some evidence that suggests he (the suspect) was wearing headphones at the time, listening to music. We don’t know if he intentionally pulled the trigger or if it went off accidentally. That still has to be determined.”

The suspect had a felony conviction at the time of the incident.

“So, he was a felon in possession,” Leyton said. “We know he had the gun in his possession when it went off. After he left and the gun discharged, he swallowed the casing of the bullet that dejects from the pistol. Then, later on, at the jail, he gave it to the deputy.”

According to Leyton, it is more common to see children killing fathers than children killing mothers. On March 24, Aron Scott Reeves II, 27, was arrested hours after his father’s body parts were identified in plastic trash bags in a dumpster of a business on Davison Road, between Averill Avenue and Center Road.

“We had four homicides since this COVID-19 thing started. Two involved children killing one of their parents. There was a possible homicide at the hospital.”

Another alleged incident took place April 9 at Hurley Medical Center when a 25-year-old man staying in the same room as a 91-year-old man hit the 91-year-old man with an IV pole and stabbed him in the eye with an IV catheter.

“We don’t know if the cause of death was because of what the accused did. We have to wait on the brain autopsy.”

Police say a 28-year-old woman found dead in a Richfield Township mobile home community was murdered by her boyfriend March 31. Police arrested a 40-year-old Davison man in Kentucky and charged him with open murder.

“I think a lot of people are living in a house or an apartment with small space and COVID-19 has everybody on edge. It’s just a very tough time right now.”

Leyton is unable to say whether the man accused of murdering his mother has expressed any remorse.

 

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