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Call for 'calm and patience' in case of beaten motorist
[DETROITNEWS] Calling for "calm and patience," Mayor Mike Duggan and council President Brenda Jones issued a joint statement Friday on the brutal beating of a 54-year-old motorist who was attacked and robbed by a crowd Wednesday after the man struck a boy with his pickup truck."Earlier this week, a traffic accident that injured a young boy, David Harris, escalated into a vicious attack on the driver of the vehicle, Steve Utash, who had done the right thing by stopping to check on the boy. This senseless vigilante style attack is not the essence of who we are as bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... ers and will not be tolerated. "We are asking all Metro Detroiters to demonstrate our true character by exercising calm and patience during this emotionally charged time. Most important, we must all keep Mr. Utash, David Harris and their families in our prayers. "We also are calling on members of our community who know the individuals involved in this brutal attack to step forward so that justice can be served and healing can begin." Meanwhile on Friday, the family of Utash, a Clinton Township resident, said his vitals were stable. Utash is at St. John Hospital in Detroit with physicians performing MRIs every 24 hours after he was put in a medically induced coma from severe head injuries he sustained Wednesday, according to his daughter, Mandi Emerick, on Friday. "We're just waiting for him to wake up," she said. Utash stopped to aid David Harris, a 10-year-old boy he accidentally struck with his pickup while on his way home from work. He hit the child near Morang and McKinney around 4:10 p.m. Wednesday and then left his pickup to check on the boy. That's when a group of about 12 men from the neighborhood, who had gathered after the accident, began to beat him, police said. "It was hard to watch my dad hitting somebody," Emerick said of the surveillance footage. "I think for anyone if they hit someone, your instinct is to stop and make sure they're OK. But to see all of those people coming out of nowhere. I can't imagine how scared he felt with them coming at him all at once." Detroit Police Sgt. Michael Woody has said Utash was "absolutely not responsible" in the crash. Emerick said her brother, Joseph Utash, was the first to find out about the grisly incident when he saw his father's pickup on the news. Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him... Emerick has started an online fundraiser for her father who doesn't have health insurance. By Friday afternoon, the family had raised nearly $9,000. Witnesses told police the attackers were black. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... Woody said the race of the suspects and the victim, who is white, is a "prosecutorial issue" and wouldn't dictate the police investigation. But he also said it didn't appear race was a factor based on the initial investigation. Posted by: Fred 2014-04-05 |
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