Crime & Safety
Detroit Girl, 11, Dies Days After Being Shot In Head While Sleeping Inside Home: Police
An 11-year-old girl, who was shot in the head while sleeping inside a Detroit home last week died Monday morning, according to prosecutors.
DETROIT — An 11-year-old girl, who was shot in the head while sleeping inside a Detroit home last week died Monday morning, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office.
The 11-year-old girl was sleeping on a coach at 4 a.m. in the front of a home in the 6000 block of Pennsylvania, near Interstate 94 and Gratiot Avenue, where multiple shooters fired roughly 23 rounds into the house, according to police.
The girl was shot in the head and taken to Children's Hospital of Michigan, where she was in critical condition on life support for multiple days before she died, according to police.
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The news comes as a fourth man was charged in connection with the shooting.
Hershel Lanier Marion Jr., 19, of Detroit, was charged with nine counts of assault with intent to murder, a count of discharging a weapon in or at a building and causing serious impairment, and ten counts of using a firearm during a felony, according to the prosecutor's office.
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Marion Jr. was placed in jail with a $2 million bond. His next court date is scheduled for March 4. He faces up to life in prison for assault with intent to murder, up to 20 years for each discharging a weapon charge and up to five for each felony firearm charge.
Tahkari Turner, 18, and Nasir Lavant Garrett, 19, both of Detroit, were charged with nine counts of attempted murder, one count of firing a weapon at a building causing serious injury and 10 counts of felony firearm.
Robert Lee Turner Jr., 20, was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, being a felon in possession of ammunition, two counts of felony firearm, one count of accessory after the fact and one count of tampering with evidence.
Prosecutors said charges against the defendants could be upgraded to first-degree murder.
Robert Turner is Tahkari Turner's brother, officials said.
Other victims in the home included a 43-year-old woman, a 38-year-old man, an 18-year-old man, a 16-year-old girl, a 12-year-old girl, a second 11-year-old girl, an 8-year-old girl and a 7-year-old girl, according to the prosecutor's office.
They were not injured in the shooting, according to the prosecutor's office.
Surveillance video showed Turner and Garrett getting out of a white or silver SUV that pulled up to the home and firing multiple shots into the house, according to police.
Investigators believe there was some kind of conflict between two groups of people.
A GoFundMe has been set up by Lamara Glenn's mother, Brandy Crenshaw, to help cover memorial expenses. As of Monday morning, the page raised more than $12,000, exceeding its $10,000 goal.
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