{"id":318,"date":"2025-02-20T17:07:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T22:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridgemi.com\/uncategorized\/mourners-say-goodbye-siblings-who-died-detroit-casino-parking-garage\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T16:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:31:32","slug":"mourners-say-goodbye-siblings-who-died-detroit-casino-parking-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgemi.com\/children-families\/mourners-say-goodbye-siblings-who-died-detroit-casino-parking-garage\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourners say goodbye to siblings who died in Detroit casino parking garage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Darnell Currie Jr. was a football player at heart and a curious third grader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\u2019millah Currie loved watching the children\u2019s cartoon, Bluey, and playing hide-and-seek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their funeral on Thursday captured their childhood. Stuffed animals surrounded 2-year-old A\u2019millah in her pink casket, much smaller than the one carrying 9-year-old Darnell Jr. Bluey characters, a football helmet and framed jersey \u2014 number 19 \u2014 were placed near the two children who died last week after<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/detroit\/2025\/02\/10\/2-kids-froze-to-death-in-detroit-casino-parking-structure\/78392601007\/\">&nbsp;apparently freezing to death while they slept in a van downtown<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inside the Triumph Church in Detroit, kids in pink hair bows and football jerseys said their final goodbyes. Song and prayer enveloped about 150 mourners as they paid their respects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe never assume that we\u2019re going to bury our children. We assume that our children are going to live longer than us or they\u2019re going to bury us,\u201d Pastor Solomon Kinloch said in his eulogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"dr-paragraph full-width-image dr-paragraph--full-width-image\">\n<div class=\"card card--bg dr-paragraph full-width-image dr-paragraph--full-width-image\">\n<div class=\"card__image\">\n<figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" onerror=\"if (typeof newspackHandleImageError === 'function') newspackHandleImageError(this);\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bridgemi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/KidsFuneral_022025_ES06-1-1.jpg?resize=1300%2C867&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" alt=\"Pictures on display at the funeral for Darnell Currie Jr. and his sister A\u2019millah Currie. In one photo, he is wearing a batman shirt.\"><\/figure><div>  <p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card__content\">\n                                      Pictures of nine-year-old Darnell Currie Jr. were on display for mourners to see as they walked in for the funeral service for him and his two-year-old sister A\u2019millah Currie at Triumph Church in Detroit on Thursday, Feb 20, 2025. (Eric Seals\/ Detroit Free Press)\n                            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Darnell Jr. played football and loved video games. In his obituary, the 9-year-old was described as a bright spirit at his elementary school, \u201cfull of energy, laughter, and a playful nature.\u201d He spent \u201ccountless hours\u201d playing with his little sister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A\u2019millah, known as \u201cYaYa,\u201d had a big personality, filling \u201cevery room with love and laughter,\u201d playing games and running around with her cousins. The two children shared an \u201cunbreakable bond,\u201d their obituary read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgemi.com\/michigan-government\/michigan-refugees-left-limbo-under-trump-resettlement-suspension\">Michigan refugees left in limbo under Trump resettlement suspension<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgemi.com\/children-families\/cash-moms-experiment-expands-michigan-where-lawmakers-see-promise\">Cash for moms experiment expands in Michigan, where lawmakers see promise<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgemi.com\/michigan-government\/detroit-searches-answers-after-massive-water-break-forces-evacuations\">Detroit searches for answers after massive water break forces evacuations<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, mourners attended a public visitation at the New McFall Brothers Funeral Home in Detroit. People who knew the family and others who did not, visited the children, reflecting on the need to care for one another and hoping the city paid more attention to homelessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A mother, with four of her children, and their grandmother, with one of her children, were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/detroit\/2025\/02\/10\/2-kids-froze-to-death-in-detroit-casino-parking-structure\/78392601007\/\">unhoused and sheltering in a van<\/a>&nbsp;when they entered the parking garage of Hollywood Casino at Greektown around 1 a.m. Feb. 10, according to police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the mother\u2019s children died and police believe they froze to death. The Wayne County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office hasn\u2019t yet released an official cause of death. The investigation could take several months, said Dr. LokMan Sung, Wayne County\u2019s Chief Medical Examiner, in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the tragedy, the family had reached out to the city\u2019s homeless response team at least three times, the latest in November, Duggan said during a news conference last week. The mother reportedly called multiple shelters as well but was told they were full.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duggan requested the city and its housing department investigate what went wrong and how they could prevent a tragedy like this from happening again. That review is underway. The mayor is expected to receive a copy of that report early next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New McFall Brothers Funeral Home is providing funeral services for the family at no cost. The city of Detroit has been helping coordinate the visitation and funeral services, according to a news release last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Free Press staff writer Andrea May Sahouri contributed to this report.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Song and prayer enveloped about 150 mourners as they paid their respects to 9-year-old Darnell Currie Jr. and 2-year-old A&#8217;millah Currie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":815,"featured_media":13793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_newspack_byline_active":false,"_newspack_byline":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[2439],"tags":[565],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2546],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children-families","tag-detroit","entry"],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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