Man pleads guilty to premeditated murder of 11-year-old girl in Detroit
Detroit — A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Friday after admitting to firing a volley of bullets into an east Detroit home in February. One bullet struck 11-year-old Lamara Glenn in the head as she slept on her couch.
Lamara died three days later, and Herschel Marion and two other men were charged with murder. Marion pleaded guilty during a brief final pretrial hearing before Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Kiefer Cox. Marion faces up to life in prison if convicted. The hearing is scheduled for October 4.
Another defendant in the case, Tahkari Turner, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on July 26. Co-defendant Nasir Lavant Garrett, 19, is scheduled to go on trial on September 23.
A fourth defendant, Robert Turner, was sentenced on June 20 to two to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to tampering with evidence.
Lamara was sleeping on the living room couch of her home in the 6000 block of Pennsylvania on Detroit’s east side around 4 a.m. on Feb. 20 when shots rang out. Police found 23 shell casings at the scene. Police said it was the second time the home had been shot at in recent months.
Lamara was shot in the head and since no ambulance was on the scene when police arrived, Detroit police officers took the girl to the hospital. She was on a ventilator for three days before she died.
According to police, the car used in the crime was a Lincoln Continental that had been stolen from Bob Maxey Ford on Jefferson Avenue in Detroit a few days earlier by a car theft gang that had been targeting car dealerships in the Detroit area.
During Friday’s hearing, Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Sarah Bonomo asked Marion a series of questions about his role in the shooting, including: “Did you shoot at the front of a residential building?” and “Did you do so knowing it could result in death or injury?”
The defendant answered all questions with “yes” before the judge accepted his guilty plea.
After the hearing, defense attorney Sterling Coleman declined to comment.
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