Category Archives: Homicide, Murder & Manslaughter Charges

On July 24th, somewhere around 5 pm, 14-year-old April Millsap walked out of her family home in order to walk her dog on a nearby trail. She never came home. Hours later her dog led people to her body, recovered lying in a ditch, about 20 feet away from the very trail she had intended […]

Detroit Officer Who Shot Young Girl Faces Only Misdemeanor In May of 2010, a high school senior from Detroit’s east side was shot and killed. Officers from the Detroit Police Department quickly identified a suspect and were granted a warrant for the property where they believed he was hiding in order to evade capture and […]

Flint Man Facing Murder Charges 33-year-old Flint resident Carlon Hughey III, is now facing charges of first-degree murder, felon in possession of a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon and felony firearms, after having turned himself into police custody for the shooting that took place outside Brothers Party Store last week According to the 68th District […]

Stand-off with Police Ends in Arrest Douglas William Howay, a 57-year-old man from Ossineke, is facing very serious felony charges after he allegedly attempted to assault members of his own family with weapons and then engaged police officers in an armed standoff that lasted through the night. According to the testimony of his relatives, they […]

The Verdict Is In Theodore Wafer, the 55-year-old Dearborn Heights man who shot Renisha McBride in the face through his screen door at 4 am, has been convicted of second degree murder by a 12 person jury. Wafer woke in the early hours of the morning to the sound of violent pounding on his front […]

 Wafer / McBride Trial Continues On Monday morning the front porch murder trial of Theodore Wafer resumed with Michigan State Police Detective Lt. David Balash retaking the stand for the defense. Balash, who is a gun and crime scene expert, testified that it was without a doubt that Wafer’s gun had fired the bullet from […]

Wafer / McBride Trial Update Theodore Wafer, who is facing 2nd degree murder charges for the fatal shooting of Renisha McBride, has spent the last week in the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in Detroit. He is accused of murdering the 19-year-old Detroit woman. However, he claims he shot her entirely out of self-defense. On […]

Recap of Trial: Day Three The trial continued last Friday for Theodore Wafer, 55, who is facing 2nd degree murder charges as a result of the fatal shooting of Renisha McBride on his front porch in Dearborn Heights last year in early November. On the third day in court, his attorney Cheryl Carpenter raised multiple […]

What Has Happened So Far On day one of the Wafer / McBride murder trial, the defense put forward their theory of self-defense to justify the actions of Theodore Wafer, who is charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter for the fatal shooting of Renisha McBride. Wafer shot McBride in the face through his screen door […]

Detroit Porch Killing Trial Begins Last Monday jury selection, always the first event in a murder trial, got underway in the Wafer / McBride murder case. In this instance, Wayne County Circuit Judge Dana Hathaway said that the selection process could take as many as four days before the trial began, but thankfully, it took […]