Report: Arrest In Grosse Pointe Park Murder
GROSSE POINTE PARK (WWJ) - Police are not commenting on reports that there’s a suspect in custody in connection with the murder of a Grosse Pointe Park woman. While there are no formal charges at this...
View ArticleAlleged Grosse Pointe Park Murder Suspect In Court
GROSSE POINTE PARK (WWJ) - A Grosse Pointe Park man facing drug charges is believed to be the same man taken into custody in connection with the murder of a 35-year-old woman. Myron Williams, 42, on...
View ArticlePolice Seek Vehicle, Tips In Murder Of Sterling Heights Mom
DETROIT (WWJ) – Have you seen this car? Michigan State Police are reaching out to the public for help as they continue to investigate the murder of a 32-year-old Sterling Heights woman — shot and...
View ArticleOfficials Determine Woman Found In Pontiac Lake Was Murdered
PONTIAC (WWJ) – WWJ has confirmed that a woman found in a lake in Pontiac was murdered. WWJ spoke with the Oakland County Medical Examiner’s office and officials say the 32-year-old woman from Pontiac...
View ArticleWest Mich. Man Gets Life For Landlady’s Fire Death
HOLLAND TOWNSHIP (AP) – A West Michigan judge has sentenced a man to life in prison without parole for setting his 53-year-old landlady on fire after she complained about his loud music. Davanh...
View ArticleEx-City Council Member Enters Plea In Wife’s Bathtub Drowning
WHITE CLOUD (WWJ/AP) - A former city council member in a small western Michigan community has pleaded no contest in the bathtub drowning of his wife. Timothy Shannon, whose trial was scheduled to start...
View ArticleDetroit Mom Found Fit For Trial In Daughter’s Killing
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - A Detroit woman charged in the stabbing murder of her 8-year-old daughter has been found competent to stand trial. Following a three-day hearing, Judge Kenneth King has determined...
View ArticlePair Gets Life For GVSU Student Adviser’s Slaying
GRAND RAPIDS (WWJ/AP) - Two men convicted of robbing and killing a Grand Valley State University student adviser will spend the rest of their lives in prison without parole. Timothy Miller and Maceo...
View ArticleMan Gets Life For Michigan Poker Game Murder
SAGINAW (AP) – A man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing the host of a Saginaw-area poker game last year. Saginaw County Circuit Judge James Borchard gave...
View ArticleWoman Who Allegedly Dumped Mom’s Body Charged With Murder
PORT HURON (WWJ/AP) - An Oregon woman accused of dumping the body of her 89-year-old mother behind a Michigan thrift store has been charged with murder. New charges against Kelly Rhodes of Salem, Ore.,...
View ArticleNo Bond For Pontiac Man In Sex Assault, Murder
PONTIAC (WWJ) – A 42-year-old Pontiac man has been charged in the sexual assault and murder of a 32-year-old woman whose body was found floating in a lake last month. Bobby Taylor was arrested for a...
View ArticleNo Bond For Man Charged In TV Argument Murder
PONTIAC (WWJ) – A 45-year-old man will be held without bond, charged in the choking death of his uncle during a fight over the TV. Rico Gartis Walker was arraigned Wednesday before Judge Preston Thomas...
View Article13-Year-Old Boy Charged In Double Murder
FLINT (WWJ/AP) - A 13-year-old Flint boy has been charged with murder in the shooting deaths of his 22-year-old brother and his brother’s 28-year-old girlfriend. Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton...
View ArticleCrime Stoppers Ups Reward In Detroit Barber’s Murder
DETROIT (WWJ) – Crime Stoppers is offering a $5,800 reward for tips leading to an arrest in the July 13, 2010, murder of a Detroit barber. It’s been nearly three years since 39-year-old Charles...
View ArticleOre. Woman To Face Trial In Mom’s Death In Mich.
By ED WHITE, Associated Press PORT HURON (AP) - An Oregon woman who left the body of her 89-year-old mother outside of a Michigan thrift store was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on a murder charge. A...
View ArticleYoung Woman Again Sentenced To Life In Dad’s Death
By ED WHITE, Associated Press PORT HURON (AP) – A former honors student who was convicted of plotting to have her father stabbed to death when she was 17 years old was sentenced Thursday to life in a...
View ArticleMonroe County Man Pleads Guilty In Father’s Killing
MONROE (WWJ/AP) - A Monroe County man faces could spend the next 15 years in prison after pleading guilty in the strangulation death of his father. Twenty-seven-year-old David Killian III pleaded...
View ArticleNeighbor Charged In Grosse Pointe Park Woman’s Slaying
GROSSE POINTE PARK (WWJ/AP) – A man suspected in the strangulation death of his 35-year-old Grosse Pointe Park neighbor has been arraigned on a first-degree murder charge. Myron Tyrone Williams...
View ArticlePolice Search For Woman’s Ex-Boyfriend In Father’s Death
INKSTER (WWJ) - Inkster police are searching for a suspect in what appears to be the city’s twelfth homicide this year. Police say they were called to the Cherry Hill Manor apartment complex on Cherry...
View ArticleMan Charged In Neighbor’s Death To Get Mental Exam
GROSSE POINTE PARK (WWJ/AP) – A Grosse Pointe Park man charged in the slaying of his next door neighbor has been ordered to undergo a competency examination. Myron Tyrone Williams, 42, had a court...
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