Attorneys on both sides of Orion Township gun incident give opposite accounts of what happened
By Anne Runkle - 5 hrs ago
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Christopher Quinn II is a Detroit attorney who represents the [Takelia] Hill family, whose members are
not charged with any crime but hired an attorney to represent them in the many media requests after one of Hill’s daughters recorded cell phone video that went viral...
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Greenblatt says the video tells the story, Quinn says the video fails to tell the whole story.
Before recording started, he said, Jillian Wuestenberg
engaged in a “verbal dispute with a teenager, a child” over the alleged bumping.
He said
Takelia Hill “was concerned about her child” because of Jillian Wuestenberg’s confrontation.
He
acknowledged that Takelia Hill slapped the Wuestenbergs’ van, but that did not represent the threat that the Wuestenbergs allege.
“I think Ms. Hill loses on that one,” he said.
“You’re going to use lethal force because someone smacked the back of your car?. Then they jump out of the car like Bonnie and Clyde.
“They (the Wuestenbergs) had the advantage the whole time,” he said, as they were armed and the Hill family was not.
“There was a perceived threat,” he said. “
Obviously, race is a component. What made her feel entitled or justified to do what she did?”
He does not think his clients should be charged.
“What crime did they commit?” he said.
He said the Hill family, of Pontiac, is seeking therapy.
“They’re just trying to get back some sense of normalcy,” he said.
The Wuestenbergs, of Independence Township, are the parents of four children.
Oakland University fired Eric Wuestenberg, 42, on July 3 from his position as a coordinator in a department that assists students who are veterans. Eric Wuestenberg is a 100% disabled veteran who served 14 years in the U.S. Air Force, Greenblatt said.
Hallmark card company fired Jillian Wuestenberg, 32, from her job as a trainer on Thursday, July 9, Greenblatt said.
The Wuestenbergs were arraigned July 3 on one count each of felonious assault, a four-year felony, before Magistrate Marie Soma of the 52-3 District Court in Rochester Hills. Both were given a $50,000 personal bond.
Their bond required them to turn over all firearms, not engage in any assaultive behavior and not leave the state.
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