- A father and son lose their lives while working to create better ones. Highland Park police found the bodies of Winston and Nigel Ventour inside a stately home on Massachusetts Sunday morning.
Alexis Honest, Nigel’s girlfriend, says she saw the Ventours last Friday. She normally drives them to work, but says she received no response when she called before picking them up Saturday morning.
“I went to the house at nine o’clock, I called them both and I was banging on the door but neither one would answer their phones,” she said.
Honest called police but they could not force entry. They went in Sunday after she filed a missing person’s report and found the men deceased still in their beds.
“I went to the medical examiner today and they are not sure what the cause of death is, but they are pretty sure that it is carbon monoxide poisoning.”
Honest says the two had been living on Massachusetts Street for roughly eight months. The power was shut off last Monday and the men were running a generator to keep the lights on.
Originally from Grenada by way of New York, the Ventours were in Michigan working carpentry jobs, sending most of their money to their families back in New York.
Winston was 68 years old, married with four adult children. Nigel also had four children ranging from 14 to 3 years old.
“That’s all they did was work and provide,” Honest said. “They didn’t do anything else they were hard working men.”
A lot of questions are swirling about the utilities there. DTE Energy is looking into that.
To the family of Winston and Nigel Ventour, we at Grenadian Women Inc, the Grenadian community in the USA and Grenadian home and abroad feel your pain, in grief and mourning the lost of this two wonderful men.
RIP to the both of them. They sound like they were two solid men.
RIP, hard working men doing their honest job. Why was the power off so dem had to be using generator? What the owner of the “stately home” dem was working on have to say? Law Suit here….