19 yr old Renisha McBride left home on Friday afternoon.
Sometime on Saturday morning she had an accident, found out that her cell phone battery had died, decided to get out of her car and go seek help. She is now dead from a shotgun blast to the back of her head.
Police are seeking charges against a Dearborn Heights, Michigan resident for shooting and killing a 19-year-old Detroit woman who sought help at the resident’s house after a car accident early Saturday morning.
The Dearborn Heights Police Department said - and autopsy information from the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office confirm - that Renisha McBride was shot in the head with a shotgun around 0630 GMT (2:30 am EST) Saturday by a resident of a house near the scene of a car accident after attempting to seek help at the house. Her cellphone battery had died, her family said.
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Renisha's heartbroken aunt asked, "He shot her in the head ... for what? For knocking on his door? If he felt scared or threatened, he should have called 911.”
Not surprising, the young man who shot and killed Renisha is now seeking protection under Michigan's Stand Your Ground Law. He is claiming self-defense and has yet to be charged.
Contact Dearborn Heights Police Department
Address: 25637 Michigan Ave, Dearborn Heights, MI 48125
Phone: (313) 277-6770
Remember the case of Jonathan Ferrell?
Jonathan was in a bad car accident. He managed to get himself out of the wreck, stumbled to a nearby house seeking help. Instead of helping him, the homeowner decided to call 911. The result?
Jonathan Ferrell, 24, was neither drunk or under the influence of drugs the night he crashed his car in Charlotte, North Carolina
A homeowner called 911 when he knocked on her door asking for help with his broken car
Officer Randall Kerrick responded to the report of a break in and shot Ferrell ten times when he was approached by the man in the neighborhood
Read more:
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One year ago, Glenda Moore and her sons - ages 4 and 2 - were caught in the "storm of all storms," Sandy. The mother grabbed her two precious boys and went looking for help. The 5' 3" woman was not able to hold on to the boys and they were swept from her arms. She went looking for help and nobody even bothered to open their doors to the frantic, grieving woman. She spent the night huddled on the back porch of a man who
said he thought she was there to rob him.
What do we do now? Where do we go for help?
Thu Nov 07, 2013 at 8:47 AM PT: This incident happened in Dearborn Heights. Not Dearborn.
Thanks to The Dave for the correction.
