![]() “I grew up around lots of handguns, lots of rifles,” she said. In the interview, Wuestenberg also said she didn’t think twice about pulling the weapon because she has experience with firearms. They were going to make sure it was understood they were the ones in charge.” And then jumped out like Bonnie and Clyde with guns pointed at them. They actually almost hit my client with their van. “She was able to get into the vehicle,” Quinn told the station. ![]() That’s when Wuestenberg hopped out of the car and pointed a loaded gun at the mother and daughter.īoth Wuestenbergs are each facing an assault charge - which Hill’s lawyer, Christopher Quinn, said is much-deserved. Wuestenberg and her husband, Eric, then get into their SUV and try to back out of the parking spot as Hill steps back before hitting the back window of the vehicle - claiming she thought the driver was going to hit them. The footage, which doesn’t show the alleged bump, picks up after the altercation spilled into the parking lot - and shows Hill and her daughter demand an apology, with the teen calling her “racist and ignorant.” The tense encounter erupted when Wuestenberg allegedly bumped into Takelia Hill’s 15-year-old daughter, Makayla Green, while leaving the restaurant in Lake Orion at around 6 p.m. “It’s scary…The more I see the more I realize I’m more afraid of that situation now than I was then.”Īsked why she felt the need to load a bullet into the gun’s chamber, she said, “That meant I am about to die and I don’t want to die.” A White couple in Michigan was arrested Thursday after video showed the woman pointing a gun at a Black mother and her daughters in a restaurant parking lot, authorities said. “Within moments, a second or two, I had multiple people within two feet of me and I just remember thinking, ‘I am not going home tonight,’” Jillian, 32, tearfully told the local station. In the first time since footage of the heated confrontation surfaced, Jillian Wuestenberg spoke out about pulling the firearm - saying she felt threatened because the duo blocked her from leaving a Michigan Chipotle, according to 7 Action News. The white woman who was arrested after pointing a gun at a black woman and her daughter during an argument in a Chipotle parking lot says she did it because she feared for her life, according to a report Friday. Tyre Nichols’ death ruled homicide from blunt force trauma: lawyers 'Barbie' star Simu Liu slams claim that he's a 'token' Asian 'thirst trap' 'Bridgerton' star calls royals 'terribly white,' sparking most UK TV complaints of year “Nothing can bring their jobs back, their lives back, their reputations back,” Greenblatt said.NYC hospital 'Karen' blasted for allegedly trying to steal CitiBike from young black man His attorney, Dean Greenblatt, said the Wuestenbergs have lived “with clouds over their head for three years.” The couple was arrested shortly afterward.įollowing his arrest, Eric Wuestenberg lost his job at Oakland University where he was coordinator of veterans support services. The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said both parties called police on each other and that the Wuestenbergs drove away and waited for deputies to arrive. She eventually gets back into her vehicle, which her husband drives away. ![]() Jillian Wuestenberg can be seen outside her vehicle shouting, “Get the (expletive) away! Get away!” while pointing a handgun at the person who’s recording. A three-minute cellphone video posted online documents part of the ensuing confrontation in the restaurant's parking lot. The Oakland Press reported that the Pontiac woman was visiting the restaurant with two daughters when the incident began. Takelia Hill, who is Black, told The Detroit News in 2020 that the incident happened after a white woman later identified as Jillian Wuestenberg bumped into Hill’s teenage daughter as they were entering the restaurant and Wuestenberg was leaving with a carry-out order. The Wuestenbergs were each charged with one count of felonious assault for the July 1, 2020, incident in the parking lot of a Chipotle restaurant in Orion Township, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) northwest of Detroit.ĭavid Williams, Oakland County’s chief assistant prosecutor, noted that the charges were dismissed Monday without prejudice, “meaning that our office can reissue charges in this matter if and when those witnesses become available.” He declined further comment. The trial had been set to start Monday for Eric Wuestenberg and Jillian Wuestenberg, but Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Mary Ellen Brennan dismissed the case after the alleged victims did not show up to provide witness testimony, The Oakland Press reported. ![]() Criminal charges have been dropped against a white couple charged in 2020 after one of them was captured on video pulling a handgun on a Black woman and her daughters outside a Michigan restaurant.
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