{"id":91602,"date":"2025-05-11T02:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T02:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/91602\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T02:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T02:33:08","slug":"loved-ones-hold-balloon-release-in-honor-of-london-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/91602\/","title":{"rendered":"Loved ones hold balloon release in honor of London Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">London Thomas was laid to rest Saturday on what would have been her 18th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cToday is London\u2019s birthday,\u201d Thomas\u2019 mom, Jasma Bennett, said. \u201cWe had her funeral, we had her burial, we had her repass and now her balloon release.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Friends and family attended the balloon release at a park in Redford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe hate that everything happened the way it happened, but today we just need justice,\u201d Thomas\u2019 dad, Cedric Salisbury, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Thomas\u2019 ex-boyfriend and his mother have been <a href=\"https:\/\/Ex-boyfriend of London Thomas out on bond as investigation into teen\u2019s death continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/Ex-boyfriend of London Thomas out on bond as investigation into teen\u2019s death continues\">identified as suspects in the case<\/a>, but have not been charged in connection with the death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Thomas was last seen in early April when she was dropped off at her ex-boyfriend\u2019s house in Inkster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Thomas\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2025\/05\/02\/2-suspects-released-1-re-arrested-after-missing-teens-body-found-in-oakland-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2025\/05\/02\/2-suspects-released-1-re-arrested-after-missing-teens-body-found-in-oakland-county\/\">body was found on April 26<\/a> in Southfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Police have not released many details about the investigation into her death, other than it is an active and open case.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London Thomas was laid to rest Saturday on what would have been her 18th birthday. \u201cToday is London\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,43304,16,15,18423],"class_list":{"0":"post-91602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-redford-township","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wayne-county"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114486864238492297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91602","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=91602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}