Dancer’s Family Lawyer Wants More Texts

Text messages between 34 people, including Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Christine Beatty, members of the mayor’s executive protection unit and others in the Detroit police department could all become public if the lawyer for a murdered dancer’s family has his way.

Attorney Norman Yatooma represents the family of Tamara Greene who he says danced at a Manoogian Mansion party. Greene was killed and Yatooma wants to preserve any text messages, and quite a bit of additional evidence, that may shed light on her death.

He says the mayor’s personal attorney has flown to the SkyTel paging offices in Missouri to ask why city text messages were not destroyed.

Yatooma has now subpoenaed those text messages as well as ballistics reports, surveillance video from the mayoral mansion, and logs of who used the Tamara Greene files at the police department.