Man Sentenced To Prison For Dearborn Hotel Shooting, Standoff

DEARBORN, MI — A man was sentenced to prison Wednesday after fatally shooting a Dearborn hotel employee last October.

The clerk, 55-year-old Tyrone Chapple of Riverview, was shot to death inside the Hampton Inn hotel in the area of Michigan Avenue and Tenny Street on Oct. 6, 2022 when hotel officials responded to a noise complaint, police said.

Reichard Lee Williams-Lewis was initially charged with first-degree murder before pleading guilty to second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 30 to 50 years in prison.

Police said hotel employees asked Williams-Lewis to leave the hotel after receiving noise complaints from other guests. Williams-Lewis then went into his room and grabbed a pistol while the employees locked themselves into an adjacent room and called 911, police said.

Williams-Lewis then shot Chapple as he was getting off an elevator to check on the employees, who were hiding from Williams-Lewis, police said.

After wounding Chapple, Williams-Lewis stood over the Chapple and fired two more shots into his head, killing him, police said.

After the shooting, Williams-Lewis barricaded himself inside one of the hotel rooms for more than seven hours before surrendering to officers, police said.