A family from the north of the state of New York thought they let the sister rest years ago, creaming her remains and even mixing them with the ashes of her beloved mother.
But three years later, Shanita Hopkins and her family obtained shocking news: they had hurt a stranger.
“We mix my mother with this stranger,” said Hopkins He told Wroc 8 this week Referring to his mother’s ashes, which the family had put in necklaces.
In February 2024, Hopkins and his family were tolerated to the decomposition body of his missing sister, Shanice Crews, had been found in an empty batch of Rochester.
The cause of the death of the mother of two was an overdose of cocaine, according to the autopsy report reviewed by Wroc 8, but the 32 -year -old teams were not in drugs, her sister insisted.
“Reading the autopsy was traumatic … It is one thing to listen to it, you know what I am saying, but it is something else to read it real, and then the name is attached. So we think, this is how Sheby did. [own]? Hopkins, 36, recalled.
“Your mind goes crazy,” he lamented.
No one in his family allowed him to see the body because he broke down a lot, which caused a rapid cremation, Hopkins Maid.
The family celebrated a commemorative and funeral service for teams in the summer, mixing what they thought they thought ‘ashes with those of their mother.
But things gave a November Asto turn, when Hopkins received a text from an unknown Detroit individual.
“His first message is’ Ma’am ‘, with my sister’s photo -‘ Ma’am, I am worried, your sister is not dead. This is just a random message,” said Hopkins. “My initial reaction was like” What, what? What am I reading right now? ”
A startled Hopkins immediately contacted the police, who pointed it to the Monroe County Forensic Doctor’s office, where the staff insisted that the dental records of the teams had been a party for the body.
Not convinced, Hopkins showed them the text message and the photo of the teams he had received, which caused an investigation.
The younger sister of the teams, who shared the same mother and dad, and the son of the teams was brought for DNA tests to see if they coincided with the person that the authorities had identified as crews.
The results are a game, Hopkins recalled.
Since then, the family has been experiencing a roller coaster of emotions.
“That is what we still have to revive … you can recover the moments when the police came and hit the Shanice teams has been found dead outside, like garbage. You can’t take away the initial feelings, you know, as if you can’t recover. Go back.” He told The Outlet.
The Monroe County Forensic Doctor’s office told Wroc 8 in a statement that the department “uses standard scientific methods of the industry to identify remains of dead people in a timely manner and make appropriate notifications to families”, but refused to comment on the accusations.
The family of the teams, which still wobbles the shocking turn of the events, is now looking for legal representation.
“After I was coming and I stepped on that my son was alive and tell me that the dental records are identical to the dental records they are looking at is just a lie, as, you are lying to my face,” he said.
“I almost feel that they simply could not find out who he was and close the case of a missing person,” Hopkins was enraged, and added that the forensic doctor’s office has recovered the ashes they gave to his family.
The office told Crews to reimburse them the money spent on the monument and cremation, “but my family said:” No, we need to get a lawyer … just for pain and suffering, because this is crazy, “Hopkins explained.
They still have to meet the teams, despite their attempts to track it through the Detroit authorities, according to Hopkins.
“We can’t force her to talk to us … but she’s alive and well,” said Hopkins.
“I love her … I don’t think I’m going to overcome anger, but I know how it feels, I’m sorry, I know how it feels like I was dead … I just want what we had, don’t greet, I like it,” he said.
