Detroit, MI
‘Outpouring of love’: Hundreds gather for vigil at park in remembrance of man found in Detroit River
ECORSE, Mich. – It was a stunning outpouring of love and sorrow at John Dingell Park on Wednesday night.
More than 100 people filled the park tonight for Tyler Bojanowski, the 25-year-old Wyandotte man who was found dead in the Detroit River on Monday (March 30) afternoon.
“The love and support that we received from everybody, that helped,” Delray Dillon, Bojanowski’s stepfather, said. “We just really want to thank everyone from the bottom of our hearts for the support, the love, and the prayers.”
Dozens of candles were lit, many with his face on them, as people came by and gave hugs to his heartbroken parents.
Between prayer and tears, Tyler’s family took time to thank everyone who loved him and helped in the search.
Tyler was first reported missing by his mother, Nicole Dillon, after he failed to return home following a night out with friends on Feb. 4.
She told police her son had also recently suffered a brain injury from a car crash.
The vigil was held at John Dingell Park, which, sadly, was the last place Tyler was seen alive.
His passport was found in a gazebo on the day he was reported missing.
There is no official word on how Bojanowski died, as the medical examiner has not reported the cause of death.
A GoFundMe Page has been set up to cover his memorial services.
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A K-9 assigned to work at Detroit Metro Airport with U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists was credited with two recent instances of detecting undeclared trees among incoming luggage.
One of those circumstances involved an undeclared, suspected fruit tree from Moldova.
The CBP Director of Field Operations Marty C. Raybon shared a video of K-9 Baylee, wearing a CBP identification vest, sniffing out the small, undeclared tree on March 3 while checking arriving luggage at the airport.
“Trees like this can carry exotic plant pests and plant pathogens. Please leave the trees behind and don’t pack a pest!” the agency said in a social media video shared Monday on Instagram.
The same K-9 also found small, undeclared plum trees inside luggage that had arrived with a passenger from Albania on Feb. 20.
“These trees could have carried plum pox virus, a serious disease that harms stone fruit,” Raybon said in that social media post shared Sunday on Instagram. “The U.S. recently got rid of this virus, so it’s important to keep it out.”
A list of prohibited and restricted items for airline travel into the U.S. can be found on the CBP website.
Previous reports of unwelcome agricultural pests intercepted at Detroit Metro have included a medfly amid damaged fruit with a passenger from Albania, caper fruit fly larvae amid fresh flowers from Italy, and remains of an invasive khapra beetle found amid luggage arriving from Lebanon.
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The surprise selection will be unveiled when the lights go down at Motor City Cinematheque’s new public program.
A movie with very strong Michigan connections will play Thursday night at the Farmington Civic Theater.
There’s only one hitch: Viewers won’t know what it is until the lights go down and the movie starts.
The evening will act as the kickoff of Secret Cinematheque, a new mystery movie program from Motor City Cinematheque, a nonprofit organization launched in 2025 that is dedicated to enriching film culture in Metro Detroit.
Motor City Cinematheque was founded by Kevin Maher, a veteran of several Hollywood studios who has been involved with nonprofit film exhibition for around a decade, and John Monaghan, a former Detroit Free Press film and theater critic and a former programmer at Detroit’s Redford Theatre.
The Secret Cinematheque programming, which will be held at the Farmington Civic the second Thursday of every month, is one of several film-related initiatives being launched by MCC.
Other programs include an exhibition of experimental 16mm short films at Detroit’s Galerie Camille on May 7; September’s Noir City Detroit festival at the Redford Theatre; an ongoing partnership with the Black Canon, Ali J. Wheeler and Alima Wheeler Trapp’s vast archive of important and influential films representing decades of Black culture; and a new twice-monthly podcast, “One Film Leads to Another,” which is centered on tracing contemporary film’s roots in classic cinema.
“For us, it’s all about getting people into a theater and watching a movie together, and then talking about it in a group setting,” says Maher. “Watching something communally adds another dimension to the experience, even if you’ve seen the movie before.”
That community aspect is at the heart of the Motor City Cinematheque’s mission. Maher compares it to church; there’s the service, and then there’s the greeting line afterward. “That’s the part that builds community,” he says, of the post-ceremony ritual. “And without that interaction, it’s not complete.”
Maher says his film preferences tend to run more populist, and Monaghan’s more toward the obscure. The melding of their tastes will result in a unique blend of programming, he says. The Secret Cinematheque series will also draw guest contributors from area film personalities.
As for this week’s Detroit-themed Secret Cinematheque offering — clues have been offered up on the Motor City Cinematheque and the Farmington Civic’s Instagram pages — “it’s one of those films that’s worth celebrating about Detroit,” Maher says.
No spoilers. See you at the movies.
agraham@detroitnews.com
Motor City Cinematheque presents Secret Cinematheque
7:30 p.m. Thursday
Farmington Civic Theater, 33332 Grand River Ave., Farmington
$5.75
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