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EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — The household of 22-year-old Alishah Pointer, who was kidnapped, tortured, killed and recovered successful a burned retired location successful East Cleveland, gathered astatine the abandoned location her assemblage was recovered successful arsenic the metropolis demolished the location Saturday.
Pointer's assemblage was recovered successful a location successful the 14500 artifact of Savannah successful East Cleveland. She died from gunshot wounds and her decease was ruled a homicide.
Ward 3 East Cleveland metropolis councilman Ernest Smith said the location was already reddish tagged for demolition past year, but helium wanted to velocity up the process aft Pointer’s death.
“In a tragic incidental similar this I felt, my colleagues felt and the politician felt that it was very, precise important to get escaped of this eyesore,” said Smith. “For not lone the household but for members of the community. Especially my neighbors and residents that reside connected Savannah.”
Kathryn Pointer, Alishah Pointer’s aunt, said she received a telephone yesterday informing her of the upcoming demolition and rapidly rallied her household together.
“I said, ‘Be there, deterioration your shirts,’ due to the fact that this is the crushed wherefore we're here, due to the fact that of my niece. So we're going to enactment her and fto her sanction stay successful everyone's memory, adjacent successful their mouth,” said Kathryn Pointer.
Kathryn Pointer said the demolition provides a tiny consciousness of closure to her family, and she's thankful for the enactment they've received from the community.
“Grateful. Grateful. Some consciousness of closure, but not a lot. But conscionable grateful," said Kathryn Pointer. “This truly rocked Cleveland. So we person gotten a batch of support, a batch of support. And its thankful that radical successful a clip of calamity did not hide astir america from the opening to adjacent present. Everyone has conscionable truly embraced us. And it's conscionable been wonderful."
Four radical accused successful transportation with Alishah Pointer's decease person each been indicted connected 2 counts of aggravated murder, arsenic good arsenic 1 number of kidnapping.
Police person not said what relation each fishy allegedly played successful Alishah Pointer's kidnapping, torture and murder.
Investigators said her attackers believed she had accusation connected to an unrelated deadly shooting successful Cleveland days earlier. Police are unsure whether oregon not Pointer knew thing astir the transgression astatine this time.
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