Tamara Green, Willie Green's Sister, Killed After Watching His Game

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Tamara Green and Gary Benjamin Green (known as Ben), Willie Green's sister and cousin, were killed Sunday night on their way home from watching Green's Hornets lose to the Pistons in Detroit.

A number of Green's family came to watch the Detroit native return home. According to Willie Green Sr., Tamara, 30, and Ben, 27, left shortly after the game was over and went to a restaurant near the arena. They got into an accident at 12:40 a.m. that had no witnesses, according to police.

"They went off the roadway at a high rate of speed, went airborne and hit the tree with the roof of the car," Troy Police Lt. Robert Redmond said. "It wasn't the road conditions; the road was fine. It was the speed. Where there's the least amount of protection is the roof of the car."

Police found Tamara trapped inside the car and Ben, who was not wearing a seat belt, 100 feet away from the car. Ben was later found to have a blood-alcohol level of 0.24 -- three times Michigan's legal limit of 0.08. He had been driving on a suspended license, with at least two drinking and driving violations on his driving record.

 

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