Posted on 04/28/2023 12:51:25 PM PDT by grundle
There were warning signs of trouble before the crash. Authorities had been involved with the family as long as nine months ago when cops and child welfare were alerted after the kids were spotted begging in a Connecticut shopping plaza, a police report obtained by The News shows.
Child welfare agents had already met with family members, including several of the children who perished, weeks before the crash “based on an alleged incident that occurred in New York,” officials previously said.
After interviewing several of the children, no further actions was deemed necessary.
Authorities said 16-year-old Malik Smith, who didn’t even have a learner’s permit, was at the wheel of the rented 2021 Nissan Rogue with no adult on board when he failed to navigate a curve of the Hutchinson River Parkway just north of the Mamaroneck Road exit at about 12:20 a.m.
The doomed SUV hit a boulder and struck a tree before bursting into flames.
Malik died in the crash along with his cousins: Anthony Billips Jr., 17, Zahnyiah Cross, 12, Shawnell Cross 11, and Andrew Billips, 8. A lone survivor, 9-year old Abraham Billips, managed to escape through the broken lift gate glass.
A GoFundMe created by the Derby parents to raise money “to help bury our children” has taken in $67,557 in donations.
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babies for benefits
Sounds like Gypsies...................
Any chance these were “Travelers”?
“Sounds like Gypsies...................”
Nah, I’ve known travelers and they don’t use those names.
Two women saving household expenses with one “husband”/lover and yet the three adults had so little income the kids were sent out to panhandle?? And, authprities seemed to know and did nothing. Yikes,
It sounds like the family’s panhandling is continuing through the GoFundMe.
You see people like that around here alot too. In shopping centers or other places where they can get lots of people passing by. They usually have a picture of a baby and a sign that goes something like ‘Please donate to help us provide a funeral for our little brother sister or child that has died’. These people can be very aggressive and in your face, almost demanding money and they can be intimidating. Always the same type of people, always black, and usually always a con. Just another panhandlinng scheme.
I guess people fall for it and think giving them money is really going to a good cause. The money’s actually going to end up going to the local drug dealer.
“Malik”? I doubt they were Travelers.
Do people even carry cash with them anymore, I don’t.
I was actually surprised when I saw a $10 bill in my wallet, I wonder how long it’s been there.
>>Police believe that Smith — who did not have a license and was driving a relative’s rented vehicle — might have been distracted or fallen asleep at the wheel and failed to make a turn, crashing into a tree and causing the car to burst into flames.
Relative let someone who didn’t even have a learner’s permit drive a rented vehicle.
Or the kid took the car and relatives joined in.
Hudson Valley Post:
>>The driver did not turn with the roadway, continued in a straight line, hit a boulder and then hit a tree head-on,”
Gofundme page for family is fake/
fraudulent
(A legit page however does exist and
had raised $48k at time of article)
They are regular American black people.
I always have a $100 bill in my wallet for those; you never know moments.
Panhandlers in Derby, of all places? I left Connecticut 25 years ago, and didn’t think things went that far downhill in places like Derby. Next you’ll tell me they are in Seymour and Woodbridge.
Of course; I don’t want The Man to know everything I am up to.
Use cash y’all unless you want to have everything go through some national ID. . .
Green card welfare leeches or illegal? Inquiring minds want to know.
Derby is barely a notch above Ansonia, and trending down.
CT DCF dropped the ball on this. As usual.
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