A Detroit toddler is in critical condition Wednesday morning after a shooting that police say so far doesn’t make “any sense at all.” Detroit Assistant Police Chief Charles Fitzgerald told WJBK that the 3-year-old boy’s parents said he was home with a 15-year-old, a 2-year-old, and a 2-month-old when the shooting happened shortly before 1 …
A 73-year-old Michigan man has been arrested after he allegedly slit a 7-year-old girl’s throat without provocation. Saida Mashrah was at Ryan Park in Detroit with another family member Tuesday afternoon. She told WJBK she saw the man approaching her. “A guy came up to me,” she said. “He pulled my face up and then …
A 3-year-old Detroit boy is in critical condition after picking up his mom’s loaded, unsecured handgun from a dresser where she left it and shooting himself in the face. Detroit Police James White said the wound was “descried to me as a graze wound, but I don’t want to commit to that, because the child …
A Detroit judge has dismissed murder and home invasion charges against the man accused of killing Detroit synagogue leader Samantha Woll last year. Michael Jackson-Bolanos was convicted last month of lying to police about the case, but acquitted on a premeditated murder charge and deadlocked on felony murder and home invasion charges. Woll, the president …
A man accused in a road rage murder earlier this year has now been charged in the shooting death of prominent Detroit neurosurgeon Devon Hoover in April 2023. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced Wednesday that Desmond Burks, 34, shot Hoover twice in the back of the head, wrapped him in a sheet, and shoved …
A Detroit mother was sentenced to 35 to 60 years in prison on Monday after she pleaded guilty to killing her 3-year-old son in 2022. Wayne County Circuit Judge Tracy Green said that Azuradee, 33, was also a victim — of childhood abuse, lack of mental health treatment, and a government that should have taken …
The man accused of killing a Detroit synagogue leader during a home invasion last year told a jury on Wednesday that he saw and touched Samantha Woll’s body in front of her home but “absolutely” did not kill her. Michael Jackson-Bolanos said he was going down the street in Woll’s Lafayette Park neighborhood breaking into …
A jury deliberated for less than hour on Thursday before finding a Detroit man guilty of the murder of his 17-year-old cousin, who he admitted throwing in a dumpster after her death in 2022. Jaylin Brazier, 24, was found guilty of second degree murder and tampering with evidence in the death of Zion Foster, WDIV …
A Detroit judge on Tuesday found probable cause to sent Michael Jackson-Bolanos to trial for the murder of Jewish community leader Samantha Woll last October. Jackson-Bolanos has been charged with felony murder, home invastion, and lying to a police officer. After two days of testimony, Judge Kenneth King added a charge of first-degree murder, WXYZ …
A 43-year-old mom of three was found dead in her Detroit home on Tuesday, and police are investigating the death as a homicide. Quana Foster’s 11-year-old daughter crawled in through an open window and found her mother’s body on Tuesday, WJBK reported. “Today her job said she (was) ‘no call no show.’ I stay down …
Prosecutors in Michigan say they are reviewing a warrant request from Detroit police in the fatal murder of Jewish community leader Samantha Woll in October. a man was taken into custody over the weekend, the second person to be detained in connection with the October 21 stabbing. The first, taken into custody on November 8, …
Detroit police have taken a “person of interest” into custody related to the murder of Jewish community leader Samantha Woll in October. According to the Detroit News, the man appears to be a stranger and not an acquaintance of Woll’s, citing sources. The sources said he is not the same man who was detained in …
