By Bradley Massman
mlive.com
KENTWOOD, Mich. — With plans to return, a woman locked another person inside a storage unit, leaving them with no way of communicating with the outside world.
The woman never came back and, at some point that day, the storage unit caught fire with the person trapped inside. First responders found the deceased, 33-year-old Corinne Rose Abosamra, inside the burnt, locked unit hours later.
Kentwood police interviewed the woman accused of locking the unit, Morgan Lee Wingeier, one day after the fire. She’s now charged with involuntary manslaughter and unlawful imprisonment in Kentwood District Court stemming from the fatal blaze.
Detectives detailed the alleged crime in an affidavit of probable cause for Wingeier’s arrest.
Firefighters and police initially responded to a report of a fire around 11 p.m. on Nov. 7 at a storage facility on Broadmoor Avenue SE. First responders broke the padlock outside of the unit and extinguished the fire.
That’s when police discovered Abosamra’s body inside the unit. Surveillance video showed Wingeier locking the storage unit shortly before 12:30 p.m. that day and leaving the property with her mother, the affidavit states.
Footage showed smoke appearing around 8:30 p.m. with flames visible about an hour later.
Detectives interviewed Wingeier the next morning at a hotel she was staying at. She told police she intentionally locked the unit because her mother – who rented the unit for her daughter – questioned why she left it unlocked.
Wingeier told police she didn’t want her mother to know Abosamra was inside, according to the affidavit. It’s unclear what kind of relationship if any, Wingeier and Abosamra had.
The initial plan was to return to the storage unit a couple of hours later and unlock it, Wingeier told detectives. She said she never returned because the things she was doing took longer than she expected, police wrote.
Locked inside the unit, Wingeier said she knew Absorama didn’t have any way of contacting someone in case of an emergency while inside.
Wingeier was arraigned on the two felony charges in late December. She is scheduled to appear in court next on Jan. 9 for a preliminary examination, records show.
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