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LOOK FOR AUTUMN ACTIVITIES IN SECTION B SEPTEMBER 20, 2023 • Vol. 35, No. 20
Man sentenced to life without parole for 2022 murder BY BRENDAN LOSINSKI blosinski@candgnews.com
FRASER — On Sept. 7, 33-yearold Detroit resident Jeffery Clark was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2022 murder of Jerray Robertson.
The case was heard before Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Diane Druzinski and concluded with Clark’s conviction on July 27. He was convicted on all charges including firstdegree premeditated murder, which carries a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole, as well as
three felony weapons charges. The jury returned a guilty verdict on all counts in 45 minutes. On July 4, 2022, the day of the murder, Fraser Department of Public Safety officers were dispatched to a parking lot in the area of Joy Street and Franklin Street, south of 13 Mile Road
and east of Utica Road, to investigate a report about gunshots. Upon arrival, they discovered Robertson, 28, of Clinton Township, on the ground, shot five times in the abdomen and once in the arm. Robertson was rushed to a nearby See SENTENCING on page 22A
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Ex-congressman Bonior honored with trail, sculpture BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — For 26 years of his life, David Bonior served Macomb County in the U.S. House of Representatives. From labor rights to veterans’ support to environmental issues, the effects of Bonior’s legislative days have gone on to touch countless Americans. Now 20 years away from working in the Capitol, Bonior’s years of service are memorialized in two separate ways across Clinton Township. The first was the renaming of the Freedom Trail to the David Bonior Trail at a ceremony held on the morning of Sept. 9. “A lot of people don’t realize how much work it is to be in a job like he had for all those years, how much time away from home he spent,” Clinton
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See BONIOR on page 9A Photos by Dean Vaglia
NEAR LEFT: David Bonior speaks at a dedication ceremony for the David Bonior Trail in Clinton Township on the morning of Sept 9. FAR LEFT: Erik and Israel Norden built a tree-shaped sculpture in Clinton Township memorializing David Bonior’s legislative and personal passion for environmental causes.
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