One of Detroit's biggest boosters was a victim of a robbery while in the city this week.
Detroit Police tell 7 Action News that the Rehab Addict Nicole Curtis was with a friend at their parked car at Griswold and Larned. A black Chevy Trailblazer was parked in front of their car.
Police say Curtis was placing a baby in the car seat on the driver's side when a young African American man jumped out of the passenger side of the Trailblazer, ran back to the driver's side of Curtis's car, reached in the window and grabbed a purse.
He then ran back to the Trailblazer and the car fled the scene.
Police say the incident happened on Monday at 9:30 p.m. A post on Curtis's verified Twitter account indicates that she was at the Detroit Jazz Fest about 4 hours before the robbery.
7 Action News spoke with Curtis on Wednesday. She said she would not say where the robbery happened. She says she doesn't want to discourage people from continuing to support cities and communities undergoing recovery.
Curtis is currently in Detroit, working with Quicken Loans to rehab the Ransom Gillis House. She has also rehabbed several other properties in the city.
Curtis originally posted on Facebook that she had been the victim of a robbery. She tells 7 Action News that she views her Facebook posts as a ongoing journal and that she felt compelled to share what had happened.
The post, which has since been deleted, read as follows:
BEFORE READING THIS -WE ARE SAFE AND THAT'S WHAT MATTERS. I was the "victim" of an attempted carjacking and it made me question every single thing I have going on in my life. I kept it together thru the police report and about halfway home ...I lost it.
The truth is ...crime happens. I thought here I am the self-appointed "come live in the city -there's no such thing as bad neighborhoods just bad neighbors" and I got F%*+# robbed ????
You know what happened ? I got comfortable. And I want you all to read this and to share it. Don't be stupid, don't be naive. It's like I used to say to Ethan, leave your bike in the front yard -it's gonna get stolen. I'm not excusing what happened to us or blaming myself -I'm simply saying ....I know better.
They got my old house book and my laptop, but I had my keys in my satchel not in a purse -not accessible. Had I thrown a "purse" in -had I started my car to get the AC going while loading everyone and everything up -might be a totally different horrible outcome.
So, to the young man that robbed us -if you get caught -I'm coming to meet you. First I seek to understand what makes you think this was a good idea. Cause the mom in me wonders ...was it the only choice you thought you had ? Second, I'm going to pray for you that your life takes you different directions.
