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 …
A 5-year-old Detroit is dead after he shot himself while jumping on a bed, playing with an unsecured and loaded handgun. Detroit Police Chief James White said the boy and four other young children home alone Saturday afternoon when the incident took place at about 1:30 p.m., WDIV reported. The gun was left on the …
Police in Michigan have arrested a man who was found passed out in a disabled vehicle with a woman’s body in the vehicle with him. Roseville police said the 45-year-old woman’s body “sustained significant trauma to her head and face,” according to WDIV. Investigators believe the woman was attacked elsewhere then put in the vehicle …
The man Detroit police said was a suspect in the murder of synagogue leader Samantha Woll was released from custody without charges on Friday. Police said on Wednesday that a suspect had been taken into custody for Samantha Woll’s murder, CrimeOnline reported, but formal charges were not filed within three days as required by Michigan …
Investigators are “just short” of naming a suspect in the Saturday morning murder of a Detroit synagogue leader and political activist and are confident the slaying was “not motivated by antisemitism.” “Right now, the evidence has not taken us there,” Detroit Police Chief James White said at a news conference on Monday, the Detroit Free …
Detroit Police Chief James White says that “no evidence has surfaced” suggested the murder of a beloved synagogue leader on Saturday was a hate crime, but investigators also have not revealed any clues to indicate it wasn’t. Samantha Woll, the 40-year-old president of Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, was found dead in her Lafayette Park neighborhood …
A Detroit political activist and president of a downtown synagogue was found stabbed to death outside her home in the city’s Lafayette Park neighborhood Saturday morning. Samantha Woll, 40, led the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue since 2022 after working on the campaigns of Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin and Attorney General Dana Nessel, the Detroit Free …
