Posted on 11/07/2013 10:41:41 AM PST by equaviator
A community is looking for answers after 19-year-old Renisha McBride was shot in the head after seeking the help of residents in what media reports are describing as a predominantly white Detroit suburb following a car crash in the early morning of Nov. 4.
While Dearborn Heights authorities have refused to release details of the investigation, they have "identified the person who fired the shot and killed the woman."
According to her family, McBride was likely forced to go door-to-door because her cell phone had died.
"She probably wanted to ask him to make a call for her or if she could use the phone," said McBride's maternal aunt, Bernita Spinks told WJBK News.
Yet McBride and others have no idea how their loved one ended up dead.
"This man just came to the door, by somebody just knocking? She didn't break in his house; she didn't break a window. What, you seen somebody on your porch and you just start shooting? And then you say it was accidental? That wasn't accidental; that wasn't accidental, no," Spinks said.
The family believes that McBride, who is black, was likely racially profiled and is relieved that the police have decided to seek charges in the case.
"I just want justice. I'm not going to stop until we get it," Spinks told Detroit News.
At a Wednesday night vigil, close to 40 family members and friends gathered to pray and share in their grief. Some chanted "No justice, no peace" and "Justice for Renisha."
"We are not going to let him get away with this senseless act he committed against this 19-year-old girl," Rev. W.J. Rideout told Detroit News.
According to Spinks, prosecutors have informed family members that the shooter is in his 50's. An autopsy has not yet been released.
McBride's case recalls a September incident where 24-year-old Jonathan Ferrell knocked on the front door of a house in Georgia in the early morning following a car accident. The homeowner, instead of opening the door, called 911. When three police officers arrived, Ferrell ran towards the squad before officer Randall Kerrick drew his gun and shot him 10 times, killing the unarmed Ferrell.
911 is a joke.
I’z gone’a riot and burnz dis place down....
It’s Detroit, whose going to know?
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Quite right.
“Ill shoot it to you if I get anything juicy.”
Maybe “shoot” isn’t the best word to use for this story :)
These people are ridiculous
“racially profiled”
as if there also dozens of white people going house to house banging on doors
oh right, Mormons
Right now you have no reason to make up reasons for this women to have been killed.
It’s a little early in the story to be making up conspiracies.
In Dearborn Heights?
going house to house banging on doors at 2:30 AM. Some groggy guy was woken up thinking it was the SWAT team looking for a dog to shoot....
“...and then some hours transpired...”
Does seem odd. But, I know some women that would call a girlfriend for help, explain the whole situation, the girlfriend would explain how she can’t help because she is out with Marcus, you remember Marcus - he was the tall guy that we met at the game and he was wearing....
After a few calls like and hours later someone finally tells her to call the cops. But the phone dies.
The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press report McBride, of Detroit, was killed by a shotgun blast in Dearborn Heights early Saturday. Her family says she likely approached the home to seek help after getting into a car accident. She apparently was on the porch when she was shot. How “early” Saturday, the report doesn’t say.
Dearborn Heights is approximately 84% white according to the city-data website.
I only imagined that some guy was rudely woken up at 2:30, still more asleep than not thought the cops have come to shoot the dog and grabs his gun.
Probably still groggy until the gun went off (we know these things have minds of their own, like SUV’s).
Just following Joe Biden’s advice.
Like most.
I used to play 12" softball for a league in Taylor. The Taylor cops should've been wearing t-shirts that said, "Taylor [Township] PD - Keeping Redford Township Safe for 50 Years."
Ya couldn't pay me enough to live in large swaths of the United States anymore.
Call the police and ambulance for her, don’t shoot her in the head.
Her name was Ranisha......
I wonder if Austin is like that?
...and it wouldn't be an accident!
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