Lottery winner faces murder trial in Detroit landlord's death

Comment #17

sully16 — Tue, 31 May 2011 15:13:32 GMT

Yep, and apples don't fall far the tree.,

Comment #16

dbello — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:07:01 GMT

He was mentally and morally bankrupt from the start.

Comment #15

HiYoSilver — Sun, 29 May 2011 12:05:45 GMT

This guy is lower than ghetto. $1.5 million in the bank and he lives in a $15,000 house, but, goes out and buys $100,000 in cars (Corvette and Avalanche). Then when his daughter his getting evicted for 2 months back rent he shoots the landlord when he could have bought 100 apartment buildings just like it.

Having worked at that facility and and a few other Postal Service offices around the area, I may have even met the guy. Most others that work there are good people and don't deserve to be c... [ More ]

Comment #14

TheGameGrl — Sat, 28 May 2011 21:42:30 GMT

Would not the daughter also be charged as she was the one that summoned her father to create this drama? She was culpable as well in not deterring this from happening..

Comment #13

OldSchoolPa — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:24:09 GMT

Well he did the crime and unless he wants to take his chance with a public defender or defend himself, hiring a lawyer or lawyers to lessen the sentence (I don't see him getting out of this scott free) is what his actions bought him. And although I usually agree with many of your points, I think the lawyers just lick their chops over any greenbacks they can collect, regardless of its source. It just so happens that an allegedly hot-headed fool was lucky to be in a lottery pool that won the Mega... [ More ]

Comment #12

beaudad — Sat, 28 May 2011 15:53:03 GMT

The lawyers will get more than the 2 or 3 months rent his daughter owed......!!! he should of just cut them a check or given the landlord cash and been done with it

Comment #11

dallascowboyfan — Sat, 28 May 2011 14:39:49 GMT

Very sad indeed Sully.......I sure do hope there is some money left for his wife daughter after the trial is over.... (the looks on his vulchers I mean attorneys faces erks me

Comment #10

sully16 — Sat, 28 May 2011 13:00:01 GMT

Very sad story, Hope the wife files a wrongful death suit.

Comment #9

TRUEBELIEVER — Sat, 28 May 2011 05:50:14 GMT

why does it seem all the hot head and idiots win the money for this crime i hope he get life or the death penalty and hope the man he shot family sues hime for wrongful death and take all his money. and his daughter still get kicked out of apt.

im not perfect but im sure i wouldnt shoot a man if my brother or mom and dad were a couple months late on rent when i just won 1.5 million thats crazy

Comment #8

rdgrnr — Sat, 28 May 2011 02:51:11 GMT

Sad story all the way around.

Except for the lawyers, that is.

They're licking their chops and thinking about all that lottery money they're gonna get.

Comment #7

OwlCreekBridge — Sat, 28 May 2011 01:29:22 GMT

I don't think that is the case with this guy. I've read several news reports with family members and co-workers talking about what a violent temper he had.

Comment #6

kaizon7 — Sat, 28 May 2011 00:42:56 GMT

Money changes no one...it only enhances behavior that's already there and/or behavior that's just below the surface. Now his lawyers will gladly eat up whatever is left of his winnings and then they will dump his case or apply for state funds to represent him when all of the money is gone.

Comment #5

HaveABall — Sat, 28 May 2011 00:36:48 GMT

When a tenant cannot pay rent, it is correct procedure for them to ready all their possessions and depart speedily, not to steal via remaining for weeks to months thereafter (it is possible that the landlord needed that money in order to pay off the agreed upon mortgage on the apartment building) ... even if they were informed that their pre-paid security deposit couldn't be used as payment nor refunded upon departure for whatever the myriad of possible reasons!

When the daughter told her fa... [ More ]

Comment #4

liberal47 — Fri, 27 May 2011 21:32:10 GMT

Not enough money at stake for Fieger in this one. A fee of 1 million or more might get his attention. Oh yeah, and it's not a slam dunk win for him either.

Comment #3

Hermanus104 — Fri, 27 May 2011 20:47:02 GMT

Money changes people - often for the worse.

Comment #2

Piaceri — Fri, 27 May 2011 20:17:00 GMT

Where's Fieger? I thought Geoffrey Fieger was in all the Detroit big cases.

Comment #1

jsweat1 — Fri, 27 May 2011 19:33:25 GMT

I just have to say what was this guy thinking! All that money he won and he killed someone over petty money. CRAZY

Lottery winner faces murder trial in Detroit landlord's death

Lottery Post — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:12:37 GMT

Witnesses: Father shot Australian in dispute over daughter's rent

A Michigan Lottery millionaire was ordered on Thursday to stand trial for first-degree premeditated murder.

Freddie Young, 62, whose 13-member lottery club hit a $46.5 million Mega Millions jackpot in February, was bound over by 36th District Judge Patricia Jefferson on charges related to the May 7 slaying of his daughter's landlord in an alleged dispute over two months' unpaid rent.

Witnesses testified at a preliminary e... [ More ]