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MARCH 6, 2025 Vol. 22, No. 5
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Mother of murdered teen still seeks justice 1 year later BY KATHRYN PENTIUK
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SOUTHFIELD — One year later, Tyler Johnson’s mother, Tomika Alexander of Ferndale, refuses to let her son’s murder case go cold. “Whether I’m alive or dead, we will get justice for Tyler, and that’s a promise,” she said. Alexander said
that her son was funny and loved sports and spending time with friends and family. After being shot in an unsupervised hotel room in Southfield Feb. 11, 2024, the 15-year-old Detroit Loyola High student died four days later, on Feb. 15. Four other teenagers were also in the hotel room. The room was rented by the uncle of one of the teens, who left them unattended. According to the
Southfield Police Department, it was one of the teenagers who placed the 911 call. When police arrived at the scene, they located two juveniles trying to flee at the hotel elevator on the seventh floor and detained them for questioning. Police recovered two handguns from one of the teenage suspects, who is a resident of Detroit. See JUSTICE on page 12A
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Centenarian Southfield resident reflects on her ‘Wish of a Lifetime’ BY KATHRYN PENTIUK kpentiuk@candgnews.com
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orn on April 18, 1922, Catherine Davis is a 102-year-old Southfield resident whose lifetime wish of going to Washington, D.C. to visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture was granted for her birthday last April by “Wish of a Lifetime” from AARP. Davis was born to sharecroppers in Benson, AlaSee WISH on page 16A
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Catherine Davis said that she was most impacted by seeing President Barack Obama and the death of George Floyd displayed in the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
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