Detroit police have taken a “person of interest” into custody related to the murder of Jewish community leader Samantha Woll in October. According to the Detroit News, the man appears to be a stranger and not an acquaintance of Woll’s, citing sources. The sources said he is not the same man who was detained in …
A 5-year-old Detroit is dead after he shot himself while jumping on a bed, playing with an unsecured and loaded handgun. Detroit Police Chief James White said the boy and four other young children home alone Saturday afternoon when the incident took place at about 1:30 p.m., WDIV reported. The gun was left on the …
Police in Michigan have arrested a man who was found passed out in a disabled vehicle with a woman’s body in the vehicle with him. Roseville police said the 45-year-old woman’s body “sustained significant trauma to her head and face,” according to WDIV. Investigators believe the woman was attacked elsewhere then put in the vehicle …
The man Detroit police said was a suspect in the murder of synagogue leader Samantha Woll was released from custody without charges on Friday. Police said on Wednesday that a suspect had been taken into custody for Samantha Woll’s murder, CrimeOnline reported, but formal charges were not filed within three days as required by Michigan …
Investigators are “just short” of naming a suspect in the Saturday morning murder of a Detroit synagogue leader and political activist and are confident the slaying was “not motivated by antisemitism.” “Right now, the evidence has not taken us there,” Detroit Police Chief James White said at a news conference on Monday, the Detroit Free …
Detroit Police Chief James White says that “no evidence has surfaced” suggested the murder of a beloved synagogue leader on Saturday was a hate crime, but investigators also have not revealed any clues to indicate it wasn’t. Samantha Woll, the 40-year-old president of Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, was found dead in her Lafayette Park neighborhood …
A Detroit political activist and president of a downtown synagogue was found stabbed to death outside her home in the city’s Lafayette Park neighborhood Saturday morning. Samantha Woll, 40, led the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue since 2022 after working on the campaigns of Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin and Attorney General Dana Nessel, the Detroit Free …
A 9-year-old Detroit boy shot his 4-year-old brother Thursday with an older brother’s loaded, unsecured handgun. Detroit police said the 9-year-old took the gun from his 17-year-old brother’s room to play with, WJBK reported, and shot the younger boy in the cheek. The bullet then struck his shoulder. The 9-year-old told police that his older …
Update: A 31-year-old Michigan man wanted for killing one woman and trying to kidnap another has been arrested. Multiple sources told WJBK that Andrew Hall was spotted in Dearborn Heights, but he fled as police approached him. He was later caught at a bus station. A Dearborn Heights police officer saw the suspect and called …
A 16-year-old Detroit boy shot and killed another teen early Thursday morning while playing with a gun stolen from a vehicle earlier in the week. Detroit Police Assistant Chief Charles Fitzgerald said three teens — 16, 15, and 14 — were “trying to shoot some kind of video and use real guns with real bullets, …
The ex-boyfriend of a Detroit nurse found shot to death in the trunk of her car on Sunday has been arrested. Patrice Wilson, 29, was abducted from the parking lot of the hospital where she worked as she finished her overnight shift Saturday morning, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The suspect, identified as 36-year-old Jamere Miller, …
A Detroit nurse who was abducted from the parking lot of the hospital where she worked early Saturday morning was found dead Sunday morning in the trunk of a vehicle in a northern suburb. Patrice Wilson, 29, had just finished her overnight shift at Detroit Medical Center Receiving Hospital and was getting into her car, …
