Michael Tarris Rashad Norris was scheduled to appear for a probable cause hearing on Friday, July 26 in connection with the September 2012 shooting deaths of 22-year-old Alvaro Carrillo-Menendez and 45-year-old Felix Romeo Reyes-Santos. Now, the probable cause hearing has been delayed due to what Norris’ attorney Christopher Dennie called…
Almost one year ago, we wrote about two young men who had been involved in the beating of one of the young men’s family with a baseball bat. Now, Tucker Cipriano and Mitchell Young have been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Tucker’s father, Robert Cipriano. On…
A South Lyon man, 31-year-old Eric John Frederickson, has been charged with first-degree murder in the murder of his ex-girlfriend. 22-year-old Summer Faulkner allegedly died after being stabbed by Frederickson on Friday July 19. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy charged Frederickson with the murder, alleging that he entered the victim’s…
On Tuesday July 16, employees of Dearborn Family Dollar store arrived at work to find that something horrible had occurred. One employee was found inside the store, apparently dead from gunshot wounds. While 20-year-old Joe Orlando was deceased, his 20-year-old coworker, Brenna K. Machus, seemed to be missing. According to…
On April 30 of 2012, a two-year-old toddler died, the death called “suspicious” by Lansing police. Brandon Kemp was allegedly abused because of issues his mother and her boyfriend, 26-year-old Marcus Hill, were having with potty training the toddler. Now, Hill has been sentenced to life in prison without parole…
18-year-old Ronald Lamont Williams Jr. of Benton Harbor was recently sentenced to 135 months to 35 years in prison for his role in an April 2012 triple shooting in Oshtemo Township. According to a news article at Mlive.com, Judge Pamela L. Lightvoet, who sentenced Williams, said that the downward departure…
On Friday July 12, marijuana charges against 42-year-old Myron T. Williams were dropped. Now Williams has been charged with murder by the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office in connection with the strangling death of a 35-year-old woman. Following the dismissal of the marijuana charges on Friday, Williams was held in custody…
On Tuesday July 9, Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety officials were asking for the public’s help in finding a 21-year-old man who has been charged in a shooting that occurred in Kalamazoo’s Edison neighborhood on July 4th. Okoli Dion Staggers was charged with seven counts of weapons violations and assault…
On Monday July 8, a 34-year-old Lansing man was pulled over by a man he believed to be a police officer, then robbed at gunpoint. Robert Merrit, Lansing police public information officer, said in a news article at Mlive.com that at around 10:50 p.m. on Monday, police were dispatched to…
Devonte Jaquez Warren was arraigned on Friday, July 5 in Grand Rapids District Court on charges of murder, felony use of a firearm, and conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting death of 18-year-old Gregory Woods Jr., a member of the Bemis Boys, a notoriously violent gang. News reports claim…