Why Is This MI Murderer Starring In A Tubi Television Series?

A situation recently occurred while scrolling through Facebook that has me a little bit torn. Recently Facebook has been generating posts to our timeline from people, pages, or advertisements that we don’t follow and this time it led to a very disturbing incident.

A woman from Detroit named Neeka Mc Lamb posted that the man who murdered her mother was in a movie on the streaming platform Tubi.

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In the post, she elaborated saying, “No more Tubi for me… the guy that killed my mom is now in Tubi movies smh.”

If you go into the comment section there are numerous screenshots of an Instagram post coming from a guy named Martell Welch, who used his Facebook and Instagram to plug a TV show that is on Tubi called Street Legal, where he apparently is one of the main characters in the show.

The main issue here is that Martell was convicted of second-degree murder and was sentenced to 16 to 40 years imprisonment. In an archived article from the New York Times, they provided gruesome details about the incident.

According to testimony at the nine-day trial, the 6-foot-1 Mr. Welch, who weighs nearly 300 pounds, yanked Ms. Word, who weighed 115 pounds, out of her car after she bumped his car a second time that night. He pulled off some of her clothes and hit her repeatedly while yelling threats at her. He slammed the woman against his 1987 car.

As the story continues, it tells how Ms. Word was left with few options:

Mr. Welch smashed the windows of her car with a jack. Then, as she stood next to the rail of the bridge, he came toward her with the jack. She climbed over the outer rail and jumped into the river 30 feet below. Sadly, she could not swim, and drowned on site.

It is important to note that PCP was found in Ms. Word's system and Mr. Welch's lawyer tried arguing the irrational behavior was brought on by the drugs, but it wasn't enough for the jury to turn away a conviction. Mr. Welch claimed the media was the one who got him convicted, and his appeal did not go his way.

Although the man clearly served his time and is now free to better his life, do you feel it’s in bad taste to have somebody like that star in a show where people who were affected by the crime he committed could randomly come across?

It seems like they are having to relive that trauma by seeing him thriving in the entertainment industry, while their loved one remains dead. What do you think?