HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Jan. 29, 2026) – A story coming out of Detroit where the mother of two children who died last February from carbon monoxide poisoning when they were living in a van brings out the point that the homeless are not all men.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy won’t charge 29-year-old Tateona Williams, but her office is still “very concerned about the welfare of the two remaining living children,” even though the city and Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries provided her family with a new home shortly after the incident. The deaths of the nine-year-old boy Darnell and his two-year-old sister Amillah were ruled accidental after the van they were in was parked on the ninth floor of the Greektown Casino parking garage.
Jason Parks with Holland’s Gateway Mission noted that there have been, on average, 85 to a hundred women and children staying at the non-profit’s center off of Fairbanks Avenue, across from Ray & Sue Smith Stadium, over the past three years.
On Wednesday night, and into the overnight hours of Thursday, the annual “Point in Time” count of the homeless in Ottawa County was held, led by Good Samaritan Ministries, as part of federal requirements for funding.
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