{"id":59125,"date":"2025-04-29T03:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/59125\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T03:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T03:16:10","slug":"community-gathers-in-southfield-to-honor-17-year-old-london-thomas-as-family-demands-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/59125\/","title":{"rendered":"Community gathers in Southfield to honor 17-year-old London Thomas, as family demands answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SOUTHFIELD, Mich.<\/strong> \u2013 Family and friends gathered to remember 17-year-old London Thomas, who was found dead in Southfield. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Thomas\u2019s light may have been knocked out, but spiritually, that light remains\u2014clearly seen by every candle lit during this gathering held in her memory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cJust a lovely young girl. Getting ready to graduate and something like this happens,\u201d said London\u2019s grandmother, Jestina Martin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The grief of Thomas\u2019s death emotionally crippling for the many people remember how smart she was. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI wanna remember her as my little baby girl, and I want everyone to remember when she was around,\u201d Martin said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Many of them are now wearing shirts with the phrase \u201cJustice for London\u201d as they continue to hope that those responsible will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWhoever done this, they need to pay for what they done. She didn\u2019t deserve that,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2025\/04\/28\/vigil-set-for-17-year-old-london-thomas-following-heartbreaking-end-to-search-in-southfield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2025\/04\/28\/vigil-set-for-17-year-old-london-thomas-following-heartbreaking-end-to-search-in-southfield\/\"><b>Until justice is reached, however, this family won\u2019t stop fighting to show that Thomas\u2019s life mattered<\/b><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWhat happened to her should have never happened,\u201d said Thomas\u2019s other aunt, Katherine Moon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re a tight-knit family. Every day we\u2019ve been together and we\u2019re gonna try to stay together even after this,\u201d Martin said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">We\u2019re still waiting to determine who the two people arrested are and what their connection to this entire investigation is. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHFIELD, Mich. \u2013 Family and friends gathered to remember 17-year-old London Thomas, who was found dead in Southfield.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,6492,393,4884,18424,257,30762,16,15,18423],"class_list":{"0":"post-59125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-inkster","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-southfield","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wayne-county"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114419085047333388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}