Dad's Murder Spurred This Mich. Lawyer to Pursue Justice for Dancer's Son
Michigan lawyer Norman Yatooma knows what it’s like to have a parent’s life cut short by murder.
It was Yatooma’s experience losing his father, who was gunned down 15 years ago, that has fueled his desire to find out who killed Tamara Greene, the exotic dancer who is alleged to have performed at a party at Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s Manoogian Mansion and was murdered months later, the Detroit News reports.
“I used to go to bed at night with fantasies of finding who killed my father,” Yatooma is quoted saying. “I was a kid who was obviously very angry about losing Dad.”
In this way Yatooma says he can relate to kids such as Greene’s son Jonathan Bond. Yatooma has filed a $150 million federal lawsuit alleging Kilpatrick and other city officials thwarted Greene’s murder investigation, the News reports.
But the fame of the case means nothing to Yatooma, who started Yatooma’s Foundation For The Kids to help local children whose parents have died unexpectedly.
