Medics arrived at the home later and determined she died of strangulation.
Police took Akel into custody at the home.
At the time of his arrest, Akel was on probation for assaulting Field, officials said Thursday. He was arrested on charges connected to that attack in November 2020.
According to the Wayne County Prosecutor s Office, Akel was charged with assault with intent to do great bodily harm, a 10-year felony, and domestic violence, a misdemeanor.
On March 16, he pleaded guilty to attempted assault with intent to do great bodily harm and the misdemeanor was dismissed.
Akel remained in custody from November 2020 until April 7, 2021, his sentence hearing. A judge sentenced him to three years probation and gave him credit for serving 157 days in the county jail.
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Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Blacks in response to the civil rights movement. Their ability to get away with it reveals why today’s initiatives to make police more accountable are bound to fail, and how we can do better.
Clifford “Chucky” Howell, a thirteen-year-old Black male, was walking home from playing at a friend’s house when a white Detroit police officer shot him near his own backyard on the evening of Sept. 13, 1969. The patrol team did not summon medical assistance for at least forty minutes, and Chucky died later at the hospital. Officers on the scene claimed that he had been fleeing the burglary of a white family’s home, a felony, and that it was therefore appropriate to shoot him. Numerous eyewitness accounts, however, insisted Chucky had been an oblivious bystander. His parents and a local Black organiz
Michigan man dead after bowling alley shooting
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WESTLAND, MI – A 30-year-old Wayne man is dead and a Detroit woman is hospitalized after a shooting at a bowling alley over the weekend, police said.
The Westland Police Department responded Friday night, April 23, to Vision Lanes Bowling Alley for a reported shooting incident, police said in a news release.
A verbal argument had escalated into a shooting, police said. The injured man and woman were transported to a local hospital; the man succumbed to his injuries while the woman is still recovering.
On Saturday, April 24, police arrested three people in connection with the shooting, police said. At the advice of the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, they were later released pending further investigation. No charges have been filed.
Fourth Detroit man charged in Warren woman s slaying
A 21-year-old Detroit has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a Warren woman, the Wayne County Prosecutor s Office said Thursday.
Bennie James Lane is charged with one count of accessory after the fact, one count of carrying a concealed weapon and one count of lying to the police during a violent crime investigation.
He is the fourth person to be charged in the Feb. 22 slaying of the 17-year-old victim. The others are Jarvis Nathaniel Fisher II, 18; Patrick White, 17, and Jayshun White, 18, all of Detroit.
Authorities allege Fisher shot the woman, who was in the back seat of a car near Clayburn and Majestic in Detroit with two other people, about 6 p.m. Fisher is also accused of assaulting the other occupants of the car, a 19-year-old Hazel Park man and another 17-year-old Warren woman, during a robbery.