Rondale Harris, 34, was shot dead in his Inkster, Michigan, home on the evening of New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2025. Police were called about 7:25 p.m. to a residence in the 500 block of Longfellow Street and found Harris, whose full name was Rondell Russell Harris, unresponsive in the living room with a gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to a local hospital and pronounced deceased.

An open 911 line reportedly captured someone screaming they had been killed, and witnesses said the shooter fled the scene. Inkster police identified 19-year-old Brocc Pedro Straughter of Inkster as a suspect and say he jumped a fence near Cherry Hill and ran toward Middle Belt Road after the shooting. Straughter was arrested on January 6, 2026, and charged by the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office with first-degree murder and felony firearm possession; an arraignment was scheduled for early January 2026.

What details about the night on Longfellow Street or the relationship between Harris and the suspect might help explain how this happened? If anyone has information, please share it with the Inkster Police.