The FBI in Georgia has interviewed and released the father of one of the two missing Detroit children still being sought after their mother was discovered dead, Detroit police said late Tuesday.
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Late Tuesday, Detroit police spokesman Officer Adam Madera said police reached out to the FBI in Georgia, who got in touch with Erin Justice. He is Kristian’s father.
“He came in voluntarily and gave a statement,” Madera said. “He is cooperative and has since been released.”
FBI Detroit spokesman David Porter said Justice “voluntarily consented to an interview, but he has not been arrested.”
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A day earlier, that basement revealed a secret: The body of Alicia Fox.
Family members found Fox’s decomposed body in the Penrod house Monday. The 27-year-old had been shot multiple times, twice in the head and was wrapped in blankets and hidden underneath a door.
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He said Kaylah’s father told police he last spoke with Fox via text at around 5 p.m. on June 3.
After Kaylah missed a graduation event at school, her father reported his daughter, Fox and the baby missing on June 6, police said.
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Moving out?
Police said Fox was married to Kristian’s father and that they had lived together.
Neighbors said Fox lived with her family on Ardmore in Detroit. DaJuan James, 32, said the family was “always together” and appeared to be moving from the home, where they had lived for about a year.
He recalls seeing the family moving out using a U-Haul truck May 27 or May 28.
Melissa Mumpfield and Terry Clay, who live on Ardmore where Fox had lived, said they saw the father of the baby using a U-Haul truck to move out about a week and a half ago.
An employee at the U-Haul Moving and Storage at Livernois near Pembroke confirmed that a U-Haul truck had been rented to the baby’s father. Police officers were at the rental store Tuesday morning and one told a reporter that he had no comment, calling it an “active investigation.”
Bill Canty, 57, who lives across the street from the home on Penrod, said he saw a man leaving the home in a U-Haul around Memorial Day weekend and, after that, no one was at the house.
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Assault conviction
Two years ago, Fox had a brush with the law after being accused in an assault case.
In October 2012, she pleaded guilty to attempted felonious assault in Wayne County Circuit Court, court records show. Under the plea deal in that case, charges of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder, larceny and armed robbery were dismissed.
During a preliminary examination in 36th District Court, the victim in the case testified Fox grabbed her hair, repeatedly punched her in the face and had a steak knife in her hand.
“Then she says ‘You’re pregnant,’ ” the woman said. “And that’s when she started kicking me in my stomach repeatedly.”
Fox kicked her about six times in the stomach with her left foot, she testified.
The victim and Fox had the same ex-boyfriend, according to a transcript of the woman’s testimony.
Ultimately, Fox was sentenced to 2 years of probation, which she was still serving at the time of her death, and ordered to 120 hours of community service, court documents show.
Michigan Department of Corrections online offender records show that Fox was scheduled to be supervised on probation until November. Among her list of supervision conditions, it says “monthly reporting.”
During the preliminary examination on the assault case, Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Lisa Lozen said that Fox’s prior record includes misdemeanor offenses, and she had a case dismissed under the Holmes Youthful Training Act in Oakland County.
A grisly find
Michael Fields, Fox’s uncle, told the Free Press Monday that he and his family had been looking for Fox for the past two weeks. While passing out flyers, he said, they received an anonymous tip that Fox might have been in the area.
Doughty said that when they found Fox’s body in the basement of the home in the 6800 block of Penrod, it appeared to be wrapped in material that looked like it was used for moving furniture.
Fields said Fox’s body appeared to be dismembered, but Mary Mazur, a spokeswoman for the Medical Examiner’s Office, said the body was decomposed. She said family members formally identified Fox through the tattoos on her body.
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