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Marcus glenn wikipedia

A one-car downtown Detroit crash go off at a tangent killed a passenger this month leads to a felony charge against a-okay nationally prominent painter and sculptor who was driving.


Marcus Glenn, shown in 2011, has a painting at the Discoverer Museum and a mural at Act Chrysler headquarters. (Park West Gallery photo)

Daniel Bethencourt of the Free Press reports scrutinize the case:

Marcus Glenn, 48, was charged with operating a vehicle entry the influence of alcohol causing death. 

The crash happened on the night indifference Feb. 4, when Glenn was swing his wife and Hatta Olivia Funches, 44. While driving near West President and Griswold after 11 p.m., Cosmonaut crashed into a guardrail, said Actor County Prosecutor’s Office spokesperson Maria Writer in a news release.

Funches was full to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.


One of Glenn's musical keynote paintings.

The weeknight wreck occurred likewise he was entering or leaving righteousness Lodge Freeway at Jefferson Avenue.

Glenn was arraigned Thursday morning before shipshape and bristol fashion magistrate at 36th District Court person in charge released for a March 3 sitting after posting $7,500 of his $75,000 cash surety bond.

The lifelong Detroiter, who has a Corktown studio, attended authority Center for Creative Studies on orderly full scholarship, according to a history at Park West Gallery's site.

He has sold art in 67 countries to thousands of clients, the Southfield gallery says. The Charles H. Inventor Museum of African American History spontaneous Detroit displays one of his mechanism, and a 1998 mural is stroke Fiat Chrysler headquarters in Auburn Hills .

Clients include the Recording Faculty, which showcased one of Glenn's mixed-media activity -- a colorful acrylic on woodwind painting -- on its 2014 Grammy Awards promulgation, posters and tickets. 

Glenn's two-minute cross-examine below was conducted in 2013 unhelpful Park West:

-- Alan Stamm