‘You didn’t say anything.’ Father of children who died in parking garage shares the story

(WXYZ) -After two children died of apparently hypothermia in a vehicle at a Detroit -Casino parking place this week, their father now shares his story with 7 news Detroit.

Darnell Currie Sr. Wiped tears while talking to me about his children, Darnell Jr. and Amelia.

He is reminiscent of the worrying phone call he says he took from their mother, Tateona Williams, Monday.

“I went to the gym. As soon as I got on a treadmill, she called to say ‘can I get to the hospital right now. They were gone,'” Darnell said. “I hoped it was a sick joke, but it wasn’t.”

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According to Detroit Police, 9-year-old Darnell Jr. And 2-year-old Amelia while sleeping in a vehicle at Hollywood Casino in Greektown Parking Garage.

Investigators say the cause seems to be hypothermia, a tragedy that stems from homelessness.

“I tried. I asked for help. Even people out of the state,” said Tateona Williams, the children’s mother.

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“I tried. I was trying to keep hotels. I tried to pay people to stay there. It didn’t work for me. You know people just didn’t like too many kids in those house,” she said.

I was talking to Tateona Tuesday night. She told me she has been living in her car for three months with her four children, her mother and two teenage siblings.

She says she reached out to Darnell, the father of three of her children.

“I asked him I said ‘can you get your kids from me?’ I said, ‘I need help.

“All she said was ‘can I have them?’ Can I have them just to get them and can I get them because you want to homeless?

Darnell said he didn’t know Tateona was homeless.

“She never said anything to me. Nothing. So all of them cried other stories they can cut all that. No, she didn’t,” he said.

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Darnell, who lives in Novi, says Tateona never specified why she would drop their children to him.

“She just asked, I can get them for a few days but I told her that I work and all that and I’m out here. We’re not close to each other. So I couldn’t but she knows all my Family is just around the corner from her, ”Darnell said.

I asked Darnell if she reached any of his family about the situation.

“No, she didn’t. And she knows she could have that we always used to do, ”he said.

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He says that the last time he held his children was a month or two ago and that they typically FaceTime. Moments he says he will miss.

I asked him what he would like to look after police investigation.

“It doesn’t even mean anything to me. Can’t get them back, so that’s what,” he said.