LIVE FROM DOWNTOWN DETROIT LOCAL 4 NEWS AT 11 STARTS NOW. THE SYSTEM FAILED THEM TONIGHT.
WE’RE HEARING FROM THE FAMILY OF
A MURDERED WOMAN WHO SUSPECTED
KILLER IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN
SET FREE AFTER A PREVIOUS
ATTEMPT ON HER LIFE NEW TONIGHT
THEY ARE HEARTBROKEN, AND THEY
ARE FURIOUS. FRAZIER WAS
MURDERED THIS WEEK DURING A
VIOLENT RAMPAGE IN HARPER WOODS.
HER BOYFRIEND, JONATHAN WELCH,
IS THE ACCUSED IN THE CASE AND
AT THE TIME HE WAS OUT ON A
$10,000 BOND FOR TRYING TO KILL
FRAZIER. JUST DAYS BEFORE
SHAWN LEY HAS BEEN DIGGING
DEEPER INTO A VERY SAD,
HORRENDOUS BOND CONTROVERSY.
HE’S LIVE AT 36 HISTORY COURT
TONIGHT. WE’RE MAGISTRATES SET
THAT BOND, SEAN. MAGISTRATE DID
SET THAT BOND HERE A NUMBER OF
DAYS AGO. DEVIN 36 DISTRICT
COURT, WE CONTINUE TO ASK THE
MAGISTRATE ABOUT HER DECISION
MAKING WHAT WENT INTO THAT BOND.
SHE HAS YET TO RESPOND TO ANY OF
OUR QUESTIONS. CHIEF JUDGE HERE
ALSO HAS NOT RESPONDED TO OUR
QUESTIONS. SO WE GO TO THE
VICTIM’S FAMILY. OF COURSE,
THEY’RE HEARTBROKEN. THEY’RE
OUTRAGED. THEY HAVE QUESTIONS
ABOUT THIS BOND. HOW YOU COULD
ADMIT A CRIME LIKE SEXUAL
ASSAULT AND TORTURE, AND THEY
LET YOU OUT. WITH $10,000
CUISINE. FRASER ASKING THE KEY
QUESTION OF 36 DISTRICT COURT
MAGISTRATE DON WHITE ON BEHALF
OF HIS MURDERED SISTER 22 YEAR
OLDS. OLEA FRASER. WHY DID WHITE
GIVE FRAZIER’S BOYFRIEND 23 YEAR
OLD JONATHAN WELCH, A $10,000
BOND AND A TETHER AFTER A
HORRIFIC DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
ATTACK AGAINST FRAZIER? JUNE 2ND
THE CHARGES TORTURE HOME
INVASION. FIRST DEGREE HARMFUL
DEVICE CAUSING INJURY, CRIMINAL
SEXUAL CONDUCT ASSAULT TO COMMIT
SEXUAL PENETRATION, ASSAULT TO
DO GREAT BODILY HARM, THREE
COUNTS OF FELONIOUS ASSAULT.
WELSH POSTED THAT $10,000 BOND
LAST FRIDAY. HE IS NOW CHARGED
WITH MURDERING FRASIER LAST
SUNDAY WHILE MURDERING HIS
STEPFATHER AND CRITICALLY
STABBING HIS OWN MOTHER WHILE
SETTING HER HOUSE ON FIRE AND
SHOOTING AT POLICE AT WELCH’S
ARRANGEMENT ON THE MURDER
CHARGES. HARPER WOODS POLICE
CALLED THE BOND GIVEN TO WELSH
AND OPPORTUNITY. TO KILL. HE WAS
GIVEN A CHANCE WITH BOND AT THAT
TIME AND TOOK HIS FREEDOM AS AN
OPPORTUNITY TO FINISH THE JOB
AND KILL VICTIM. FRAZIER IS EASY
TO COME UP WITH THESE PEOPLE
THAT THAT THAT THAT’S STILL
SOMETHING FROM A STORY THAT WILL
GET MORE THAN 10,000 YOU TORTURE
SOMEBODY, YOU SEXUAL ASSAULTED
SOMEBODY AND YOU GOT OUT. WELL
PAYING $10,000. SO AGAIN, THE
MAGISTRATE WHO SET THE BOND HAS
YET TO RESPOND. THE CHIEF JUDGE
IS YET TO RESPOND. WHO HAS
RESPONDED TO US SO FAR? IS
PROSECUTOR KIM WORTHY? SHE TELLS
US TONIGHT. QUOTE IT IS AN
UNDERSTATEMENT TO SAY THAT IS
CEDING LEE DIFFICULT. TO GET
APPROPRIATE BONDS FOR VIOLENT
FELONIES FROM SOME OF THE 36TH
DISTRICT COURT MAGISTRATES MAGIC
JUST HAVE REPORTS AVAILABLE TO
THEM THAT DETAIL ALLEGED CRIMES
IN THEIR FILES BEFORE A BOND
DECISION HAS TO BE MADE THE BOND
THAT WAS GIVEN TO MR WELCH FOR
HIS ALLEGED HORRIFIC CRIME WAS
MUCH HIGHER THAN WE USUALLY GET.
SO WE WERE HOPEFUL. THAT AFTER
THE PRESENTATION OF THE EVIDENCE
AT THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
THAT WOULD HOPEFULLY PERSUADED
JUDGE TO ACTUALLY INCREASE THE
BOND ACCORDINGLY. IT NEVER GOT
TO THAT LEVEL TRAGICALLY, NEVER
GOT TO THAT PRELIMINARY
EXAMINATION. NOW WELCH IS BEING
HELD A JUDGE IN HARPER WOODS
HOLDING HIM ON NO BOND TONIGHT.
WE’RE LIVE OUTSIDE 36 DISTRICT
COURT JOINTLY LOCAL 4 MANY
QUESTIONS STILL TO BE ANSWERED
ON THIS, ALL RIGHT, SEAN. RIGHT
NOW A GUNMAN IS ON THE RUN ON
DETROIT’S WEST SIDE AFTER A
DEADLY SHOOTING AT A CHILDREN’S
BIRTHDAY PARTY. IT HAPPENED JUST
HOURS AGO AT A PARK NEAR
FULLERTON AND INDIANA. PLEASE
TELL US TWO MEN GOT INTO AN
ARGUMENT THAT ESCALATED TO
GUNFIRE. ONE MAN WAS SHOT AND
KILLED. THE SHOOTER RAN OFF. A
LOT OF BRIGHT GREEN THERE ON
STORM TRACKER FOUR AS WE HEAD
INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS, THAT
MEANS, UH, STUDY RAIN SHOWERS ON
OUR WAY, PAUL. NOTHING TOO
SEVERE, THOUGH, RIGHT? NO SEVERE
, IN FACT, NO LIGHTNING AT ALL,
AND WE NEED THIS RAIN AND THE
FACT THAT IT’S FALLING AT NIGHT.
THAT’S THE BEST NEWS OF ALL.
WE’RE GOING TO TRY AND SALVAGE
GOOD DEAL THIS WEEKEND. WE’LL
TALK ABOUT THAT IN A BIT, BUT
RIGHT NOW, HERE YOU ARE WITH
JUST SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS IN
THE AREA AND BACK TO THE WEST.
YOU CAN SEE THERE IS A MORE
SUBSTANTIAL BATCH OF SHOWERS,
MAINLY SOUTH OF EIGHT MILE. THIS
IS EIGHT MILE RIGHT HERE
BASELINE ROAD HERE, AND THIS IS
ALL MOVING EASTWARD. SO THERE’S
NOTHING REALLY GOING ON HERE
WITH THIS. YOU CAN SEE THERE’S
ACTUALLY NOT A WHOLE LOT GOING
ON BEHIND IT EITHER. BUT IF WE
ZOOM IN A LITTLE CLOSER, YOU CAN
SEE THERE’S NO LIGHTNING. I HAVE
LIGHTNING TRACKER TURNED ON.
THIS IS JUST A GOOD SOLID
DOWNPOUR AND AGAIN IF WE CAN
MAINTAIN THIS THING INTO THE
AREA THAT WOULD BE MUCH NEW TO
RAIN. THE LOT OF US WILL BE
HAPPY TO GET ALRIGHT RIGHT NOW.
TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE SIXTIES
AND THEY’RE NOT GOING TO DROP A
WHOLE LOT FARTHER TONIGHT
BECAUSE DEW POINTS ARE ALSO IN
THE SIXTIES SO WE CAN SNAPSHOT.
WE’RE LOOKING AT 83 DEGREES AND
MOSTLY DRY DAY TOMORROW AND
SUNDAY. WE’RE NOW TRENDING A
LITTLE MORE FAVORABLE WITH THE
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
TALK ABOUT ALL OF THAT COMING
UP. BUT DON’T FORGET THE LOCAL
FORECASTERS, APP. IS YOUR
FRIEND. IT HAS REAL TIME RADAR.
YOU CAN PAINT AND ZOOM THE MAP
WITH YOUR FINGERS. SEE ANYWHERE.
YOU WANT THE RAIN ANYWHERE IN
THE COUNTRY. EVEN IN EUROPE, YOU
CAN LOOK AT THE RADAR. IT’S
FAST, EASY, ACCURATE AND IT IS
FREE. JUST GO TO THE APP STORE
SEARCH UNDER WDIV’S BACK WITH
ANOTHER UPDATE IN JUST FEW
MINUTES, GUYS. PAUL DETROIT
POLICE HONORED FALLEN OFFICER
LAUREN COURTS THIS AFTERNOON
WITH A PRAYER VIGIL AT THE
SECOND PRECINCT WHERE HE WORKED.
OFFICER COURTS. SURVIVING FAMILY
MEMBERS WERE AMONG THE CROWD
MADE UP OF POLICE PEOPLE FROM
THE COMMUNITY AND MANY OF WHOM
HAD NEVER MET OFFICER COURTS BUT
WERE THERE BECAUSE THEY WANTED
TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT CHIEF
JAMES WHITE AND OTHERS REFLECTED
ON HOW SPECIAL HE WAS. AND HOW
THEY’VE BEEN GRIEVING HIS LOSS.
BECAUSE OFFICER COURTS IS WHAT
THE DETROIT POLICE DEPARTMENT IS
MADE OF THIS TYPE OF OFFICER
THAT WE ALL HOPE TO BE. IF I
COULD BE HALF THE CHIEF THAT HE
HAS POLICE OFFICER WAS THIS
POLICE OFFICER? I WILL MAKE AN
IMPRINT ON THIS CITY AND THIS
DEPARTMENT THAT WILL MAKE ALL OF
US PROUD. I’M GOING TO CHOOSE
LOVE OVER GRIEF RIGHT NOW. I
JUST HAVE TO LOVE THE FACT THAT
THE COURT FAMILY ALLOWED HIM TO
COME TO US. I LOVE THE FACT THAT
HIS WIFE AND KIDS LOST TIME WITH
THE FATHER AND A HUSBAND AND
ALLOWED HIM TO COME TO US. LOVE
THE FACT THAT HE WAS A JOKESTER
LOVE THE FACT THAT THIS SECOND
PRECINCT JUST ADORED HIM. I
MEAN, WRAP THEIR ARMS AROUND
HIM. UM SO I’M GONNA CHOOSE LOVE
CONTINUED FEELING THIS WAY, AND
I’M GONNA EVERYONE DEALS WITH
GRIEF IT THEIR OWN WAY. DON’T
TIME. AND HERE NOW ARE THE
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR OFFICER
COURTS. EVERYTHING IS GOING TO
TAKE PLACE AT GREATER GRACE
TEMPLE IN DETROIT. PUBLIC
VISITATION TOMORROW, STARTING
STARTING AT NOON. IT WILL RUN
UNTIL EIGHT PM TOMORROW EVENING
SUNDAY. IT WILL BE THREE PM
UNTIL NINE P.M. AND THEN THE
FUNERAL THE NEXT DAY MONDAY,
JULY 18TH AND IT WILL GET
UNDERWAY AT 11 30 IN THE
MORNING. GOVERNOR WHITMER, BY
THE WAY, HAS ORDERED FLAGS
ACROSS THE STATE TO BE LOWERED
TO HALF STAFF ON MONDAY IN HONOR
OF OFFICER COURTS. QUICK HELP
FOR SUICIDAL THOUGHTS AND OTHER
MENTAL HEALTH EMERGENCIES WILL
SOON BE EASY AS 988 TOMORROW THE
NEW THREE DIGIT CRISIS HOTLINE
WILL LAUNCH ACROSS THE US
ROUTING CALLERS TO THE NATIONAL
SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE OR
MEGAN WOODS IS LIVE TONIGHT WITH
MORE ON HOW IT WILL WORK, MEGAN
KIMBERLY DEVIN. THIS NATIONAL
SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE HAS
BEEN AROUND SINCE 2000 AND FIVE.
IT’S A 10 DIGIT NUMBER, AND IT’S
NOT EASY TO REMEMBER, ESPECIALLY
IF YOU’RE IN A CRISIS AND THAT’S
WHY THEY’RE CHANGING IT.
STARTING TOMORROW, ALL PEOPLE
HAVE TO DO IS DOWN 988. YOU HAVE
LIKE A NEWS STORY WHERE A YOUNG
CHILD DIED, DIALED 911, AND THEY
WERE THE DECIDING FACTOR IF
THEIR MOM LIVED OR NOT. GETTING
MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT WILL NOW
BE JUST AS EASY. KEISHA JACKSON
, WHO STARTED AS SUICIDE
PREVENTION, NONPROFIT, CALEB’S
KIDS SAYS THE NEW NUMBER WILL
CHANGE LIVES. YOU HAVE REACHED
THE NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION
LIFELINE. IT’S SOMETHING THAT WE
CAN TEACH KIDS WHEN THEY’RE
YOUNG. KEISHA LOST HER YOUNGER
BROTHER, CALEB, TO SUICIDE IN
2015, AND CAN’T HELP THINKING
WHAT 988 WOULD HAVE DONE FOR HIM
IF HE HAD SOMEONE TO TALK TO
WHERE HE FELT COMFORTABLE
LEANING IN AND COMFORTABLE
GETTING THE HELP THAT HE NEEDED.
THEN MAYBE HE WOULD STILL BE
HERE TODAY, THE CRISIS LINE WILL
HAVE MORE THAN 200 CALL CENTERS
AVAILABLE. 24 7 MACOMB COUNTY
COMMUNITY, MENTAL HEALTH IS ONE
OF THEM WILL BE TAKING CALLS
FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY WILL
BE TAKING CALLS FROM OUR LOCAL.
ALL THESE LINES HAVE BEEN MERGED
INTO ONE. SO IT’S PROBABLY GONNA
TELL NOBODY SHOULD EVER HAVE TO
EXPERIENCE A LONG WAY ANYWHERE.
THE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY AND
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES SAYS
THE NEED IS THERE OF THE CASES
HAVE INCREASED, AND ALSO THE
VOLUME HAS INCREASED. THE HOPE
IS WITH 988. THE LIVES SAVED
WILL ALSO INCREASE WHERE YOU
HAVE THIS NUMBER THAT WILL HELP
CHANGE HOW WE THINK ABOUT MENTAL
HEALTH. HELP CHANGE HOW WE THINK
ABOUT SUPPORT REALLY COULD BE
LIFE CHANGING AND HAVE A
GENERATIONAL IMPACT. AND LAST
YEAR THAT NATIONALS SUICIDE
PREVENTION LIFELINE RECEIVED 3.6
MILLION TEXTS AND CALLS. THAT
NUMBER IS EXPECTED TO NEARLY
DOUBLE ONCE THEY CHANGE IT OVER
TO 988 TOMORROW. THAT THE LOCAL
CRISIS CALL CENTER THAT WE SPOKE
TO. THEY SAY THEY’RE GOING TO
LOOK AT THE DATA IN THE NEXT
COUPLE OF MONTHS AND SEE IF
THEY’RE GOING TO HAVE TO HIRE
MORE COUNSELORS TO ANSWER THOSE
CALLS LIVE IN DETROIT. I’M MEGAN
WOODS. LOCAL 4. THAT’S GREAT.
OKAY MEGAN. THANKS MEDICAL
EXAMINERS DETERMINED IVANA TRUMP
, THE EX WIFE OF FORMER
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DIED.
ACCIDENTALLY FROM BLUNT IMPACT
INJURIES TO HER TORSO. POLICE
HAD BEEN LOOKING INTO WHETHER
SHE FELL DOWN THE STAIRS. IVANA
WAS DONALD TRUMP’S FIRST WIFE
AND THE MOTHER TO DONALD JR.
IVANKA AND ERIC TRUMP. SHE WAS
73 YEARS OLD 11. MORE MONKEY POX
VACCINES ARE HEADED TO THE U. S
AS THE NUMBER OF REPORTED CASES
RISES 40% IN ONE DAY, 100,000
VACCINE DOSES ARE BEING SENT TO
THE US IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS,
SEVERAL MILLION MORE WILL FOLLOW
IN THE MONTHS AHEAD. US HEALTH
OFFICIALS SAY THE VACCINE SUPPLY
HASN’T KEPT UP WITH DEMAND IN
NEW YORK, CALIFORNIA AND OTHER
PLACES. THERE ARE CURRENTLY
11,000 MONKEYPOX CASES WORLDWIDE