Recent Posts in Murder/Manslaughter Category
Posted on Jan 17, 2012 By Freedman & Freedman
It is being reported that Byron Coney, along with 2 other men, tried to rob a man at his home in Lansing . It is being alleged that during the course of a fight or scuffle, gun shots were fired and ...
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Posted on Jan 9, 2012 By Freedman & Freedman
It is being reported that a 41-year-old woman from the Upper Peninsula was sentenced last week to federal prison for nearly 4 years. The crime? Biting the tip of a man’s nose, hitting him with a ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2011 By Freedman & Freedman
It only took a jury 45 minutes to reach a verdict in a case where an 18-year-old woman was charged in the stabbing of her parents. The attack left her father dead and her mother seriously wounded. The ...
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Posted on Jun 3, 2011 By Freedman & Freedman
At 8:00 a.m. yesterday morning, a Grand Blanc man walked into a police station and allegedly said 'I just killed my wife.' Police went to the Sunset Plaza Apartment complex where the man lives ...
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Posted on May 3, 2011 By Freedman & Freedman
A man who cut a deal with prosecutors several years ago has been arrested again, this time in connection to a brutal murder . Nolan Ray George was taken into custody for the murder of Cindy Garland ...
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Posted on Apr 20, 2011 By Freedman & Freedman
A Roseville woman, who was arrested in January for allegedly pouring nail polish on her boyfriend and lighting him on fire, as well as chasing him around with a butcher knife, has pleaded guilty to ...
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Posted on Apr 13, 2011 By Freedman & Freedman
On Saturday, Jerod Davidson from West Virginia drove his 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee the wrong way on I-275 in Van Buren Township and crashed, head-on into another vehicle killing the driver. It is being ...
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Posted on Mar 25, 2011 By Freedman & Freedman
An Ypsilanti woman is accused of shooting and killing her husband at their apartment yesterday morning. The woman was arraigned this afternoon on charges of murder , using a firearm in the commission ...
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Posted on Feb 11, 2011 By Freedman & Freedman
Despite a week long trial, it took jurors only 90 minutes to convict West Bloomfield resident Ellery Bennett of first-degree premeditated murder in the stabbing death of his wife, Lisa, in their home ...
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Posted on Jan 10, 2011 By Freedman & Freedman
Saturday evening, Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the North Ridge Apartments apartment complex in response to a citizen’s report of a man dragging a woman into an apartment. When ...
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Posted on Jan 5, 2011 By Freedman & Freedman
Jamar Antwon Frederick testified for the prosecution in a murder trial held last month in the shooting death of 19-year-old Andrea Parnell. Frederick ’s testimony was a crucial element in the ...
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Posted on Jan 3, 2011 By Freedman & Freedman
A Roseville woman was arrested Sunday night and spent the night in lockup after she allegedly poured rubbing alcohol or nail polish on her husband and lighting him on fire. The man reportedly suffered ...
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Posted on Dec 20, 2010 By Freedman & Freedman
Julia Ann Hopwood, a teacher at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte , North Carolina , was arraigned Sunday on murder charges in the death of Amy Chesbro. Police allege that Hopwood drove ...
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Posted on Dec 13, 2010 By Freedman & Freedman
A woman’s body was found in Kensington Metro Park a day after being reported missing by friends and relatives. Her brother, Marc Rosenthal, was charged Sunday with first-degree premeditated murder in ...
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Posted on Nov 23, 2010 By Freedman & Freedman
A New Haven stepmother was charged today and is expected to be arraigned this afternoon in the sexual abuse and murder of her 2-year-old stepdaughter. Renee Marie King, 28, is charged with felony ...
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Posted on Nov 15, 2010 By Freedman & Freedman
Last Thursday, two people in Halloween masks climbed through a window at the home of Paul and Mara Skinner in Yale , Michigan . Both were attacked and stabbed multiple times. Paul Skinner died from ...
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Posted on Sep 13, 2010 By Freedman & Freedman
According to statistics released by the FBI, the violent crime rate in the city of Detroit has increased despite the fact that nationwide, violent crimes have decreased. The violent crime rate, which ...
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Posted on Aug 2, 2010 By Freedman & Freedman
This week, it was announced that a Detroit man may face the death penalty after a jury found him guilty of federal murder charges. The killing took place in 2001 during a fatal armed car robbery. ...
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Posted on Apr 14, 2010 By Freedman & Freedman
Carl Mintz, the 27 year old Farmington Hills man accused of shooting a fellow driver who approached his car during an altercation, pled not guilty at his Arraignment on Tuesday to charges of assault ...
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Posted on Apr 13, 2010 By Freedman & Freedman
The Detroit Free Press is reporting that Frances Dingle has pleaded no contest to four counts of second degree murder in the March 16, 2009 deaths of four Lake Shore High School students in an alcohol ...
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Posted on Apr 7, 2010 By Freedman & Freedman
A Detroit man, who claimed that his 2 year old daughter had been shot in the back seat of his moving car, has been arrested after police found glass and shell casings in his driveway. Police Sgt. Eren ...
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Posted on Feb 19, 2010 By Freedman & Freedman
A Kent County jury has convicted a mother of murder for starving her disabled daughter to death. Tammy Jefferson, 42, will likely to be sentenced to mandatory life in prison for failing to care for ...
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Posted on Feb 17, 2010 By Freedman & Freedman
Two men have been arrested for allegedly shooting another man outside a bar in Southgate. Kyle Wilkerson and Jonathan Reese are both accused of murdering 42-year-old Elijah Keith Young. They have each ...
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Posted on Feb 4, 2010 By Freedman & Freedman
A man accused of murdering an 89-year-old woman and setting her house on fire has accepted a plea deal. On February 22, Michael Bush, 26, will begin a 30 to 60 year prison sentence for the murder of ...
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Posted on Jan 21, 2010 By Freedman & Freedman
An Oakland County couple was formally charged with first-degree murder last week for the death of Kmart employee Greg Paul Wainio. The charges stem from an incident that took place Jan. 14 at the ...
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