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Family Calls for Justice in Death of Maurice McClain
 
5/6/06--The Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality is joining with the family of Maurice McClain, a 17-year-old who was found hanging in his cell at the Wayne County Jail last Saturday, April 29, 2006, to demand information regarding the circumstances of his death.
 
McClain’s mother, Helen McClain, said that she has received no communication from either the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department and/or Detroit police investigators assigned to the case. Just prior to his incarceration, Maurice McClain had been in the custody of the state juvenile system.
 
The Coalition and the family are asking that there be an immediate response to the questionable circumstances surrounding this death. “We want to know whether other inmates or perhaps law enforcement officers may have been involved in my son’s death,” said Helen McClain. “Our family is totally overwhelmed by the shock of this incident, and we’re asking that anyone who knows anything about this matter help us.”