The woman discovered alive after being declared dead and cremated: Report

• A family in Rochester, new, learned that the person they had the cremat was not their missing loved after she was seen alive in Detroit.
• The police initially said the Shanice crew died of an overdose of drugs.
• The family is now planning to seek legal representation.

A family in New York is furious after learning that the person they had the cremat was not their missing beloved and that she is still alive.

Shanita Hopkins told Rochester Station Wrocław-tv Thursday, April 17, about the trial that her family has gone through since discovering the person they have grown for several years is not deceased.

Hopkin’s sister, Shanice crewshad not seen or heard since July 6, 2021. The crews were 28 years old at that time and had two children.

In April 2024, police warned Hopkins and her family that crew residues had been found on February.

An autopsy at that time said that the crews died of an overdose of drugs, with high levels of cocaine contained in her system.

Although she had not heard from her sister for several years, Hopkins did not believe the circumstances surrounding the crew death.

“Reading the autopsy was traumatic,” Hopkins told the news station.

“It’s one thing to hear it, but then it’s another thing to actually read it, and then (to see) her name is linked to it.”

The family wondered if the crews really died of an overdose or whether she was unconsciously laced with a drug. “Your mind just goes crazy,” she added.

Because the body was extremely broken, the family did not see what they heard was crew residues. Instead, they had the body cremated and held a memorial service for her.

In November 2024, things took a new outrageous turn.

Hopkins received a random message from someone she had never met before. That person shared a new photo with herds.

“Mrs. I am worried, your sister is not dead. She only went voluntarily at my event today,” the stranger wrote and attached a photo with the message.

After contacting the police, Hopkins was redirected to Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office, who assured her that Crew’s dental register matched the body they had the cremat.

The contradictory accounts weighed heavily on the family’s mental state.

“We handled the box and stuff, we put them in necklace and we mixed my mother with this stranger,” Hopkins said.

She went on, “You can’t take back the moments where the police came and told us Shanice herds have been found dead outside, like junk. You can’t remove them first feelings … We can’t get it back. We can’t get them seven months back. We can’t get them tears back.”

Hopkins said that Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office has then offered to pay the family for cremation and funeral, but Hopkins said they choose to a lawyer instead.

“I almost feel that they couldn’t find out who this was and they wanted to close a missing person’s case,” she told the news station.

When it comes to herds, Hopkins said while their family “can’t force her to talk to us,” she has a message to her sister.

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“I love her. I’ve been angry with – I’m still angry, I don’t think I will ever get over the anger but I know what it feels like to think she was dead,” Hopkins said. “I just want her to know that everything we had been going on, it doesn’t matter. I love her, that’s it. That’s all I want her to know.”

Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office did not immediately respond to people’s request for comment, but issued the following statement to Wroc:

“Monroe County Office of the Medical Examiner uses industrial standard scientific methods to identify residues of deceased individuals in time and make appropriate messages to families. Due to restrictions on the disclosure of information contained in the register of the office of the medical examiner, we cannot comment on specific cases.”