Troy Man Charged For Fatally Shooting His Mom On Thanksgiving

ROYAL OAK, MI — A Troy man who fatally shot his mother on Thanksgiving was charged by prosecutors Monday, the Oakland County Sheriff's office said.

Sonya Harry, 52, of Southfield was fatally shot in the head by her son near the Pleasant Ridge-Royal Oak border while she drove them home Thanksgiving night, the sheriff's office said.

George Michael Harry II, 22, was charged with murder, five counts of attempted murder and six counts of using a firearm during the commission of a felony, the sheriff's office said.

He is being held without bond in the Oakland County Jail and is expected to be arraigned before the 44th District Court's Magistrate Donald Chisholmin in Royal Oak, the sheriff's office said.

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As Sonya Harry was driving north on Woodward Avenue in Pleasant Ridge, after Harry and his mother left a family Thanksgiving Eve gathering in Detroit, George Harry fired a single shot at pointblank range to his mother’s head from the passenger seat of a Ford Edge, police said.

He shot her with a nine millimeter handgun, police said.

The Edge then crashed under the Interstate 696 interchange, before coming to rest in the middle of Woodward Avenue, police said.

George Harry then got out and randomly fired shots at three other passing vehicles, including one in which an infant was riding. The car was struck but no one in the infant’s vehicle was hit, police said.

However, a Ferndale woman, 43, was driving another car and suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. She has since been released from the hospital, police said.

The sheriff's office said a motive for the shootings was not immediately known.