Restaurant manager attacked • Oil intentionally spilled on street • Opening statement for Zion Foster’s murder

TUESDAY NEWS HIT – A customer who allegedly didn’t want to pay for her drinks attacked a restaurant manager in Livonia last month, leaving her hospitalized with staples in her head.

At her request, Susan Rains works in a restaurant that we will not name. She said two customers complained about their steak, so she took the meal off the bill and apologized. However, there were still $6 worth of drinks left on the bill. The customers crumbled the receipt and threw it at Rains before another person who was with the couple, Deshaun Kelly, allegedly attacked her.

“He first spilled the drink on me and then threw it at the side of my head,” she said. “Then he just punched me in the eye and I fell to the ground.”

The incident was caught on camera. Facial recognition helped Livonia police arrest Kelly a week later. He was accused of assault.

“We always want to be on the customer’s side, but the customer can’t be pushy and rude and mean and condescending – and just say, ‘I’m not paying my bill because I don’t want to.’ “I’m paying my bill,” Rains said.

There was an intentional oil spill on West Bloomfield Road

Oil spilled across Square Lake Road led to a road closure Tuesday morning, and police say it appears the spill was intentional.

West Bloomfield Police Deputy Chief Dale Young said a call came in around 10:45 p.m. Monday from a witness who saw a box truck that appeared to be leaking oil onto the road near Square Lake and Middlebelt . By Tuesday morning, the oil had covered the road between St. Joseph Street and Pine Ridge Road and had spilled into the neighborhood.

“Our preliminary investigation shows it is likely intentional,” Young said. “I’ve been doing this for about 20 years and I’ve certainly never dealt with anything like this.”

Although police say the oily substance is not harmful, Square Lake is closed because the road is too slippery to drive on.

Opening statement in the Zion Foster murder trial

The prosecution and defense are expected to make opening statements in the murder trial of Jaylin Brazier on Tuesday.

The 25-year-old is accused of killing his cousin Zion Foster in 2022. Brazier was originally charged and convicted of lying to police. While serving a sentence for this crime, he was charged with murder, although no body was ever found.

A 12-member jury was selected Monday at the start of Brazier’s trial.

Brazier told police he was with Foster when they left her home on January 4, 2022. He admits they smoked marijuana and added that she died with him – and that he even threw her body in a dumpster somewhere in Detroit. But he denies that he killed her.

Bird flu calls for emergency regulations

On May 8th, a state emergency order will come into force in Michigan to curb the spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza or bird flu.

Although it has not yet affected people, HPAI has suffered damage to the state’s economy and its egg and meat supply activities. If nothing is done about it, the director of the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development warns the problems could only get worse.

“Michigan has been in the unique position of dealing with a fairly significant HPAI outbreak, both in a number of fair flocks here in the state and in a number of poultry operations – some commercial egg laying operations, some turkey farms,” said Director Tim Langweilig.

Typically, the problems farmers face in mid-spring are related to weather and too much rain – or cold nights that freeze crops. But this year it’s bird flu.

Police canceled Detroit’s Cinco de Mayo celebration

Organizers of a Cinco de Mayo celebration in Detroit are angry after they say police abruptly broke up the event on Sunday.

“We had planned a whole event around Mexican art, music and culture,” said Michael Reyes, co-director of the Detroit music label We Are Culture Creators.

In a video provided by Reyes, police can be heard telling crowds during Fiesta Detroit to “clear the area” and “the street is now closed.” A previous event, the 59th Annual Cinco de Mayo Parade and Fiesta, was a success.

But at Fiesta Detroit, aimed at Generation Z and younger millennials, everything was going well until the police showed up, organizers said.

The police saw it differently.

“Some stores were crowded. The capacity was double or triple, which creates a number of problems for us,” said Chief James White. “The decision was made at that time to pause that business, whether to reduce traffic or move out of that area to other areas, but no stores were closed.”

But event organizers claim police never made it clear why they dispersed the partygoers.

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Daily forecast

Some thunderstorms could be severe today.

What else do we see?

1. Police say a 19-year-old motorcyclist who died in a crash was speeding on I-94 before losing control Monday evening.

2. A Toledo man is in custody in Michigan after police say he shot at another driver on I-75. It happened Monday morning in Monroe County.

3. A 16-year-old has been taken into custody as Detroit police continue to investigate a quadruple shooting that took place in Stein Park last week.

4. During the NFL Draft in Detroit, police spent two days hunting down and arresting suspected human traffickers. FOX 2 Detroit went behind the scenes of the operation.

5. Road closures resumed on Hines Drive for bicycling, walking and running on Saturday. The road will remain closed every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. until September 28th.

Trump fined $1,000 for violating gag order while former staffer talks about repayments

The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money trial fined him $1,000 on Monday and warned that future violations of the gag order could land him in prison, as jurors heard detailed testimony on the financial charges for the first time Heard refunds, which are at the heart of the case.

The testimony of Jeffrey McConney, the former controller of the Trump Organization, provided a mechanical but important account of how the company made payments intended to unearth embarrassing stories during the 2016 presidential campaign and then chalked them up to legal fees. as Manhattan prosecutors said, broke the law.

McConney’s appearance on the witness stand came as the first criminal trial of a former American president entered its third week of testimony.