In September of this year, 40-year-old Lou Ferrin, a bouncer at Club Pandemonium in Detroit, died after being stabbed in the neck by a male patron he was ejecting from the club. At the time of the murder, the killer remained on the loose and police had no suspects. Ferrin,…
Oakland County Sheriff’s officials stated in a release on Friday, October 26, that two teens had been arraigned on felony murder and home invasion charges for an incident that left a 27-year-old Pontiac man dead. Donald Lee James, a 16-year-old Lake Orion High School student and 17-year-old Jonathan Hickerson of…
Enrique Amaya, a 31-year-old Pontiac man, was sentenced on Monday to life in prison for conspiracy to commit murder by Detroit federal judge Paul Borman. Amaya was found guilty of the charges in June, after allegedly hiring a hit man to kill a man in Colorado so that he could…
On Friday, October 26, 14-year-old Joshua Smith was sentenced to 25-50 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of second-degree murder in the death of his mother, Tamiko Andrea Robinson, in September. Smith is charged as an adult in the case, and also pleaded guilty to a felony firearm…
Recently, 22 random shootings have taken place along and near the I-96 corridor in Metro Detroit; as of yet, police have not been able to apprehend the gunman, but have tied seven of the bullet fragments to a single weapon, according to Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe. Thankfully none of…
On Tuesday October 16th, a Detroit cab driver was shot and killed outside a Mobil gas station located at Conner Street and Harper Avenue on Detroit’s east side; this is the second cab driver to be killed in Detroit in less than 30 days. The alleged victim, Jawan McQueen, was…
On Friday, October 12, 32-year-old D’Andre Lane was found guilty by jurors of first-degree felony murder and child abuse. Lane is accused of killing his 2-year-old daughter, Bianca “Bacon” Jones, in December of 2011 although her body has never been found. Banika Jones, mother of the alleged victim, believes that…
On Thursday October 4, an incident began when police responded to reports of a man with a gun at a TGI Fridays restaurant in Southfield. Officers gave chase when the man drove away from the restaurant; the pursuit went on for several miles before the suspect slammed in to a…
Two Leslie men, 22-year-old Nicholas Christ and 20-year-old Jacob Laraway, were recently booked on multiple felony charges after allegedly robbing a rural Ingham County gas station at gunpoint, according to Ingham County Sheriff’s Office. The two men allegedly robbed the Dansville Gas Station at 978 Jackson Street early on the…
On the rainy Thursday morning of September 20th, a fatal stabbing occurred at the Chrysler North Jefferson Assembly Plant in Detroit. According to news reports, two employees at the plant were involved in an altercation that resulted in the death of one employee. Production was suspended for the remainder of…