Man Who Slashed EMT’s Face, Raped and Killed Teen Sentenced

DETROIT, MI — A man who slashed a Detroit emergency medical technician’s face with a box cutter last year was sentenced to 40 to 80 years in prison Thursday in four cases, including three cold cases from 2005 to 2006 that involve the rape and murder of Detroit teenager Dantoya White, whose body was discovered on New Year’s Day 2006, according to media reports.

Michael Montgomery, 31, pleaded guilty in all four cases Thursday in Wayne County Circuit Court in Detroit. His attorney, Wyatt Harris, said Montgomery agreed to the plea deals to spare the victims of his crimes the pain of a trial. He won’t be eligible for parole until he is 71, and the maximum sentence means he could be behind bars until he is more than 100.

Kelly Adams, whose face was slashed in the attack on two EMT workers on Oct. 20, 2015, and who remains on medical leave, said at the hearing that she will carry the scars and suffer emotional trauma throughout her life.

Paramedic Alfredo Rojas was also attacked as they tried to give aid to a woman who was with Montgomery. He was slashed in the hand, and both were near death when they drove themselves to the Detroit Receiving Hospital for treatment, according to earlier reports.

“He got all Freddy Krueger with us … but he didn’t win,” Adams said, according to a report in the Detroit Free Press. She described Montgomery as a “psychopath that tried to kill two medics that were just trying to do their jobs.”

Lorenzo White, the uncle of Dantoya White, whose body was discovered in an alley on Jan. 1, 2006, also spoke. “You just didn’t kill her,” he said of his niece. “You took her soul.”

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Adams said a sentence that allows Montgomery to apply for parole in 40 years was too light. “It’s a slap in the face to all of us,” she said, The Detroit News reported.

She said she wanted Montgomery to see the extent of her injuries. “I just wanted him to look at it,” she told reporters. “I mean, he filleted it open, figured he might as well look at it.”

Speaking with reporters after the proceeding, White’s mother, Morennica Jefferson, said Montgomery should never see daylight again, "just like my daughter won’t see daylight.”

Maria Miller, a spokeswoman for the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, told the Free Press it’s improbable that Montgomery will be granted parole.

“What happened to the victims in this case is unspeakable and that’s why a plea in this case of 40 to 80 years was an excellent resolution,” Miller said. “It is for all practical purposes a life sentence.”

Montgomery pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and first-degree criminal sexual conduct in White’s murder and rape. He also pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct and kidnapping in a 2005 rape of a 33-year-old woman, and to first-degree criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping and torture in a 2006 case.

In the attack on the paramedics, Montgomery pleaded guilty to two counts of assault with intent to murder, two counts of assaulting/resisting/obstructing causing serious impairment, and assault with intent to maim.

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