CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. – A 35-year-old Clinton Township woman's boyfriend shot her death, stabbed her son to death and tried to stab her daughter to death in May 2010. He is facing life in prison.
Todd Michael Pink was sentenced to life in prison for shooting Carrie Seils to death and stabbing her son, 4-year-old Skyler Seils to death. Pink tried to kill Carrie Seils' daughter, 6-year-old Heavyn Seils, but she survived the stabbing.
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It happened that May during the weekend of the downtown Detroit Hoedown. Carrie Seils, her children and Pink all attended the event. Pink killed the two and stabbed the girl inside Carrie Seils' Clinton Township home.
Now, Skyler and Heavyn's father, Chad Seils, is filing a lawsuit against several people and groups who he says played a role in aiding Pink's killing rampage. He is laying the blame on those who were running the beer concessions at the Hoedown.
The father and daughter are living in western Michigan now, trying to piece together a life.
"It's a day-by-day process," Seils said. "Heavyn misses her brother and her mother very deeply and there are things she lives with day in and day out."
Seils' lawsuit says there is a long list of people who were in position to prevent the bloody carnage. He said it starts with Pink and his father, Richard Pink, who owned the gun used in the shooting.
His lawsuit goes on to accuse three police officers of not doing their jobs -- one from Roseville and two from Clinton Township.
Seils said he tried to get the officers to prevent his ex-wife from taking the children for the Hoedown weekend, but they did not.
Next, he is suing a Michigan family independence agency case worker whom, Seils said, should have done the same.
Finally, he is suing Olympia Entertainment and the Fraternal Order of Police's Grosse Pointe Lodge 102. Seils says the two groups ran the beer concessions at the Hoedown which helped prolong Pink's drunken murderous binge that left his ex-wife and son dead.
His attorney says the Fraternal Order of Police failed to purchase a liability insurance policy for its vendors at the Hoedown.
"You know it was foreseeable that both of them were highly intoxicated and kept getting served alcohol, especially with two minor children with them," Seils said.
Seils told Local 4 that the lawsuit is not about money, though he is seeking a rather large sum.
He said he wants to set up a foundation in his son's name to try to keep tragedies like his from happening.
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