Adult, minor in custody for murder of 11-year-old during sleepover in Detroit home
An adult and a minor are said to be in custody for murder of an eleven-year-old girl during sleepover in a Detroit home.
The unidentified child was shot shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday on the Motor City’s east side.
“We don’t have a whole lot other than another child from our city being shot, this one fatally, due to some adult nonsense obviously that she has nothing to do with,” Detroit police Chief James White told reporters.
The girl’s grandmother told police someone fired into the home where the sleepover with four other children was taking place.
The girl was pronounced dead by EMS, White said. The identity of the suspects have not been released.
Sources say a “wide open” police investigation is trying to determine if the shooting that killed the little girl was tied to another incident of gunfire in the area.
Two adults were in the home when the girl was killed, police said.
