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A married 34-year-old Michigan man faces murder charges in the killing of his mistress and mother of seven, whose remains were found in a trash bag — with the toes sticking out — by a fisherman on the bank of the Flint River. Christopher Astin Motry faces first-degree murder and charges of tampering with evidence, concealing the death of an individual and domestic violence in the killing of Christina Elizabeth Barber, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said in a news conference. The murder was uncovered on March 3 when police were dispatched to the Flint Motel, where Barber had rented...

FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - Investigators and a Flint couple are having a difficult time with their emotional reaction to a lifeless fetus found lying on the sidewalk late Tuesday. Daniel Foster and his wife were out for their nightly walk when they discovered the male fetus around 11 p.m. along the 1800 block if South Dort Highway. A medical examiner determined it was at about 20 to 23 weeks gestation. "Me and my wife were walking back from up here and she started freaking out," Foster said of his wife. "And I asked her, what are you freaking out for?...

A Family Dollar store security guard was fatally shot in Flint, Michigan, on Friday after telling a customer her child had to wear a face mask to enter the store, prosecutors said. An argument began when the security guard, Calvin Munerlyn, 43, told Sharmel Lashe Teague, 45, that customers needed to wear face masks in the store, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said at a Monday news conference. She yelled at him, spit on him and drove off, Leyton said. About 20 minutes later, her car returned to the store and her husband and son, Larry Edward Teague, 44, and...