WARREN, Mich. (AP) - Police suspect drugs were at the root of three killings, including the death of a 6-year-old boy in suburban Detroit.
Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer said he hopes federal authorities join the case and seek the death penalty. Michigan doesn’t have the death penalty for murder. No arrests have been made.
Detroit police found a man’s body in a burned-out car Thursday. Investigators contacted Warren police to notify the man’s family. Police then found the bodies of the boy and a 28-year-old woman in the basement of a house.
“Only monsters and godless creatures would pull the trigger on a 6-year-old in execution style. … We want the death penalty,” Dwyer said Friday.
Dwyer said investigators “strongly suspect” that drugs were the reason for the killings, although he didn’t elaborate.
The killer or killers could have known the boy and the woman because there was no evidence of a break-in at the home, Dwyer said.
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