Woman who gained 825 pounds after witnessing her boyfriend’s gruesome murder is now considered a ‘fire hazard’ with tragic outcome

A woman who made hundreds of pounds after witnessing her boyfriend’s murder says she was deemed a “fire hazard” and claims she was banned from returning home.

Juaunia Bates, 33, of Wayne, Michigan, claimed she was barred from re-entering her eighth-floor Westchester Towers apartment because of the fire hazard because she currently weighs more than 800 pounds, she told Fox 2 Detroit.

Bates gained more than two hundred pounds after seeing her boyfriend killed in 2018 and fear gripped her, causing her to get up at home.

“It put me in a bad space where I was literally trapped in my own body,” she said.

The Michigander’s weight caused her to develop lymphedema — a build-up of fluid — in her legs, which caused pressure sores that got so bad it felt like a knife was “constantly turning” in her limbs. So she called 911.

It took 15 paramedics and firefighters to lift her out of the apartment after she refused to be tied up with ropes and thrown out the window.

“I was scared,” she told Fox 2.

Juaunia Bates, 33, of Wayne, Michigan, claimed she was barred from re-entering her eighth-floor Westchester Towers apartment because of the fire hazard because she currently weighs more than 800 pounds.

Bates won hundreds of pounds after she saw her boyfriend killed in 2018 and fear gripped her, causing her to get up at home and win more than £200.

She was taken to Corewell Health Wayne Hospital and has not yet been released. Bates had to file an appeal with Medicare to stay in the hospital even longer.

She claims she has nowhere to go after that because her apartment complex deemed her a hazard – something the management company disputes.

‘Miss. Bates is welcome at Westchester Towers and we look forward to her return home,’ Andrew F. Smith of Princeton Enterprises, which manages the building, told Fox 2.

“We are not aware of any restrictions that would prevent her from returning and we wish her all the best.

It took 15 paramedics and firefighters to lift her out of the apartment after she refused to be tied up with ropes and thrown out a window after recently calling 911 about painful fluid build-up in her legs.

Management is apparently working to get her an apartment on the first floor, but she says she’s afraid she won’t be able to take care of herself once she’s there.

“I don’t have the right medical equipment,” she told the press. “Medicare and Medicaid don’t pay for a lot of things.

“I just needed help. I can’t go on living like this, she continued. “My biggest fear was going home, not getting help and dying – that was my biggest fear.”

Bates’ social worker tries to help her get personal trainers and physical therapists to nurse her back to health.

She claims she has nowhere to go after that because her apartment complex deemed her a hazard – something the management company disputes. “We are not aware of any restrictions that would prevent her from returning, and we wish her the best,” said Andrew F. Smith of Princeton Enterprises, which manages the building.

She also got a call from a rehab center in Ohio that “is starting a bariatric unit and they want me to come there,” she told local media.

Bates hopes that one day she will be able to “walk again and go out and not be a burden to my family, because I feel like the biggest burden.”

Recently, she has relied on her 53-year-old mother for help.

The Midwesterner is hopeful for the future and said it “will only (be) from here.”

“I just can’t go on living like this.” I want to be free.