Flint is well known for its modern violent crimes but Flint's history is filled with little known stories that read stranger than fiction. Gruesome murders, weird accidents, and violent deaths. Join us every Thursday as Joe Schipani details some of the odd but true deaths he found in Flint's archives.
Uncle
George
December
30th, 1926
Recently paroled from Jackson
prison for attempted murder charges, George Abdella moved to Flint to be close
to his family.
His brother Samuel, lived on
Jamieson Street in Flint with his wife and daughter Grace. Grace, a hormonal
teenager, quickly fell in love with her uncle and George retuned the feelings.
The two had been secretly dating for a month, and just after Christmas they
announced to Grace’s father, George’s brother, that they planned to marry.
Samuel found this to be quite
disturbing, and told them that he would not allow it because it was morally
wrong. George tried to convince his brother that it was an old Syrian tradition
to marry a family member and that they would be doing their parents, who still
lived in Syria and proud. Samuel refused to listen to his reasoning and forbid
them from ever seeing each other again. He even went as far as disowning his
brother and not allowing him to enter his home.
This sent George, who was already
unstable, into a rage. George decided to send a note to Grace asking her to run
away with him and get married.
Grace replied with a refusal and
stated that she did not want to disobey her father. In her note she ended the
relationship with her uncle. George was heartbroken.
On Thursday afternoon, Grace
spent most of her day watching her neighbor’s eight year old child, Nellie. The
two were having a great time until Uncle George showed up.
He begged Grace to run away with
him.
Grace once again refused and
asked him to leave. When he refused Grace started screaming for her father.
George pulled out a gun. He told
her if he could not have her no one else would. He then pulled the trigger
shooting her in the jaw. He ran out of the house when he heard his brother
coming. Samuel ran to his daughter’s aid.
As George ran down the road he
was met by a mob of Samuel’s Syrian neighbors who heard the gunfire. George was
trapped in a vacant yard when the police arrived. He feared going back to
prison and figured that he would not get off as easy this time since he was
still on parole for an attempted murder charge.
He put the barrel of the gun in
his mouth and pulled the trigger dying instantly.
Grace was rushed to Hurley
hospital and received surgery. She was lucky the bullet did not hit her brain.
She survived the incident.
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