Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 11/24/2015 11:35:16 AM PST by equaviator
Police have arrested a suspect in the murder of a 91-year-old Michigan man they say was beaten and then doused with gasoline before he and his home were set on fire.
Officials announced that a suspect in the murder of Paul Monchnik was arrested Tuesday, a day after the retired TV repairman and World War II veteran was found dead in his burning northwest Detroit home.
"We do have a suspect in custody, and this is just a part of a closed chapter for that family that is still grieving," Detroit Police Chief James Craig said at a news conference.
Police had released surveillance video they say shows a suspect driving Monchnik's 2000 silver Chevrolet minivan to a nearby gas station, where they then bought a canister of gasoline.
Southfield Police found Monchnik's vehicle in the city of Detroit, Craig said.
"These investigators have literally been going ever since (the murder)." Craig said. "This is a case we need to bring some closure to."
He declined to go into specifics of the arrest or discuss if the arrest was connected to a search warrant executed on a home near Monchnik's house earlier in the day.
"We just wanted to reassure the public that we do have a suspect in custody," he said, offering his condolences to the victim’s family. "Our heart and prayers go out to them… for the loss of their father."
Since he was a little boy. Monchnik called Detroit home and prided himself in knowing his city inside and out, family said.
"He came over as an immigrant when he was about eight from Poland," his son, Scott Monchnik, 56, told INSIDE EDITION. "He went to school in Detroit, then he went off to World War II. He was in the Army; he made it through the war."
When he returned, Monchnik went to school to become a television repairman and started his own business, his son said.
"He was always in Detroit. He went into people's houses and fixed their TVs. He knew every street in the city, and it's a big city," Scott Monchnik said. "He was kind and open-minded… He had no prejudice, he had no malice and he was a kind-hearted man.
"He worked very, very hard to support his wife and his family and he wanted to live to be 100 and this kid cut that short," Scott Monchnik said.
"And that’s one of the hardest parts. He didn’t get to pass away quietly in his sleep as an old man," he continued. "His life was cut short by a senseless, meaningless crime. There were no values, nothing valuable in the house. It was an old car with very little to no value. There was no point and there's no reason, no way of understanding why this happened."
Scott Monchnik last spoke to his father Sunday night and the men last saw each other Thursday.
"We made plans for me to pick him up for Thanksgiving. He was all excited for that; he loved getting together with the family," he said.
Monchnik had three children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren whom he had met for the first time two weeks ago.
"That was a beautiful, wonderful thing and now this happened," Scott Monchnik said.
He said his father had lived alone since his mother’s passing in 2007, but it was of little concern for the family whose patriarch was still fiercely independent.
"Other than his hearing, he was in good health. He took no meds. At the end of the day, his strength was enough that he would be here for another number of years. He wasn’t close to death at all," his grieving son said.
A motive for the crime was not immediately clear.
Sir; I am so distressed that this kid of Obama’s did this
inhuman crime against you. He is not worth your little
finger. My father was a WWII veteran who passed away
13 yrs. ago. - I never voted for the sorry excuse for a
“man”. Never!! - Your generation saved the world from
another sorry excuse for a human being, Adolph Hitler! God
bless you!
This kid is better off dead if he thought there was something to gain by what he did even before he went to the gas station.
“The police announced that they were looking for a black suspect as soon as they learned of the crime. It was all over WJR in Detroit.”
Maybe so, but when a suspect has been arrested and charged with the crime, his mugshot should be posted on all news outlets, and from my experience, where Black perpetrators are involved, the powers that be try to keep photos out of the media.
“Hope he gets his in prison.”
I hope he gets the needle! Putting this “sub-human thing” in jail and having to feed him for 70 years or more, makes a mockery of our “justice system.”
BURN the perp!
To be exact, it was next door........
With that being said, I wouldn't be opposed to a nationwide network of terminally ill citizens willing to join a vigilante force whose objective was to take out people like this who are known killers but rely on the judicial system to save their lives..........
It may be murder but to the terminally ill, it would be satisfaction in knowing they finally served society in a positive manner.......
Yet another feral out doing their “”thing”. These subhumans don’t deserve to live.
Of course, I would prefer that he was burned at the stake or that he got the chair, but they hardly ever even use lethal injection on people. When they do, it takes decades to get it done.
He’s still a suspect. The police said so as of 3pm local.
“He’s still a suspect. The police said so as of 3pm local.”
Yeah right! He’s got the guy’s car, and yet he’s only a suspect. What’s his excuse? Did he “rent it” from the guy before he killed him and burned down his house?
Great thought, I forgot all about that movie series...........
If a race war ever ignites in this country, the ferals will get some of us, but they’ll take the worst of it by far.
Two eighth grade sons of Obama killed a 40 something woman in KS City recently. I found out about it through alternative media.
You will never find those things on the main media or local media.
Posted a link from the Daily Mail just below your post. For some reason they are good about posting stories that are not well publicized by our media.
I do not know about this frickin' world. Too many demons are walking around. There will be no justice that can be done. I can't even imagine how the family must feel. It's almost too much to take just reading about it.
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