Autumn Chenell Tate
By SUE SUCHYTA
Sunday Times Newspapers
LINCOLN PARK – Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy charged Autumn Chenell Tate, 28, of Lincoln Park in connection with the death of her newborn son.
Tate was expected to be arraigned the afternoon of April 15 in Lincoln Park’s 25th District Court. She is being charged with one count felony murder, one count first degree child abuse and one count of child abandonment.
The body of a newborn male infant was found March 6 in a blood-covered plastic bag near the bank of the south branch of the Ecorse Creek, near Fort Street and Goddard Road, in Lincoln Park. Tate was arrested March 30 following a police investigation.
An online record search revealed that at one time, Tate lived at 1730 Goddard Road, Lincoln Park, an apartment building that burned Feb. 8, about a month before she gave birth, but it is not known if she was living there at the time of the fire.
Mayor Thomas Karnes said Tate was living with her mother and was not homeless when she was taken into custody.