Sasha Avonna Bell, one of the first to file a lawsuit over the Flint, Michigan water crisis, was found dead inside a townhouse on Tuesday.
Bell was found shot dead with another woman, Sacorya Renee Reed, at a home in the 2600 block of Ridgecrest Drive, The Flint Journal reported.
A one-year-old child, who was unharmed, was also found in the home and turned over to child protective services, but police did not confirm whether the child was Bell’s.
Bell was among the first wave of Flint residents who filed lawsuits alleging their children were poisoned by high levels of lead present in the city’s water supply.
Her lawsuit was among 64 filed on behalf of 144 children, the Journal reported, which named six companies involved in monitoring and constructing Flint’s water system.
The case is slated to continue, with a representative to be appointed to represent Bell’s child.
Tragic.
Well, that’s a rather extreme way to avoid paying lawsuit damages.
The lawsuit will continue.
Almost certainly unrelated to the lawsuit. Just more senseless gun violence. That child has a rough path ahead.
A poignant exclamation point on the many issues of spiraling poverty in Flint. The government up and down had already abandoned the residents’ basic right of safety in their community, then residents find out their own government had stepped it up to actively undermining the survival of those who remained. When one of it’s many residents steps up to speak out against the government, she’s killed probably by the same criminals thriving off the government’s lack of attention and accountability.
Why can’t these welfare queens just bootstrap themselves out of poverty with all the government ‘support’ provided?