A Tacoma woman is pleading for the one thing no insurance policy can replace: the ashes of her 11-year-old brother, stolen from her car as she moved into a new apartment on Sixth Avenue.
Abbirielle Priest was unloading belongings when thieves broke into her vehicle and took off with suitcases and clothes. The family later found one of the suitcases abandoned in a stairwell near their garage, but the container holding her brother Bishop Romeo’s cremated remains was gone. That discovery, she said, left them devastated.
According to KIRO 7, Priest’s apartment cameras captured an image of a man walking through the garage carrying items believed to be from the break-in. She shared those images on Facebook, asking neighbors to help identify him. In her interview with KIRO, she emphasized that clothes and luggage can be replaced, but her brother cannot, saying, “my 11-year-old brother is something I can’t get back.” She also told the station she has heard from others who believe they were targeted by the same suspect…