ANN ARBOR, MI — Family and friends of Nyesha Mercedes Robinson gathered at Ellsworth Park Saturday afternoon to remember her as a fighter and a woman of faith.
Robinson, also known as Angel Mercedes Pritchard, died of injuries suffered in a triple stabbing that occurred in an Ann Arbor hotel on April 4. Robinson was one of three women stabbed in the incident.
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Thomas Robinson, Nyesha Robinson’s father, said she always was reading and studying the bible. She went through struggles, Thomas Robinson said, but through those struggles, his daughter was always fighting and making progress.
“She would call me and say, ‘Dad, I’m going through this or that,’ and I would just console her the best way I could,” Thomas Robinson said. “For me to get a call that my daughter was involved in a triple stabbing was devastating because, even though you have your own struggles, you never put in the element that your daughter could get killed.”
Family and friends listened to speakers give prayers and read poems, as well as the song “Deliver Me” by Le’Andria Johnson. Alicia Ortiz, Nyesha Robinson’s second cousin, chose that song and was there when Nyesha Robinson was born. She remembers Nyesha as vibrant and full of life with a contagious laugh, and someone who was always protective of her family.
“We love her, we miss her, we’re all sad and this was a tragic loss,” Ortiz said.
The group also held a balloon launch, where they let go of 27 purple and blue balloons – 27 for how old she was when she died, and purple and blue because those were her favorite colors, Ortiz said.
Henry Brown is Thomas Robinson’s best friend and was Nyesha Robinson’s godfather. Nyesha had a tremendous amount of love and was a good kid, he said, and reiterated that Nyesha would reach out to her dad to let him know what was going on in her life, even if it wasn’t positive.
Nyesha and Thomas Robinson had conversations about her trying to make a change, Thomas Robinson said, and at just 27 years old, she had the time in her life to make those changes.
“There’s no perfection in a human being,” Thomas Robinson said. “That’s all I could tell her – there’s nobody perfect. You’re going to make mistakes. Learn from your mistakes, make a turnabout and come back better, and that’s what she was working on.”
Nyesha Robinson’s alleged attacker, Madron Aldonijah Austin, 47, was charged Monday, April 5 with two felony counts of assault with intent to murder, one felony count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder and one felony count of armed robbery. An autopsy was performed on Robinson Monday, April 12. Its findings will be sent to the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office for potential additional charges against Austin.
Austin was arrested the day of the attack at a home of an acquaintance in Ypsilanti Township, according to police.
Family hope that the person responsible for Nyesha Robinson’s death gets justice, “and I hope he pays for it,” Ortiz said.
Nyesha Robinson is survived by both her parents and five sisters, Britley Holmes, Alexandria Lashelle Danzy, Latajha Robinson, Re’membrence Gittens and Tamara Tillman; sons Keith Michael Robinson and Jafarri Robinson; uncles Robert E. Smith and Kito M. Smith; and grandmother Diane Holmes.
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