A dispute over eighty dollars in a dice game ended in a double homicide at an apartment on North Sanford Street in Pontiac on the morning of October 8, 2024. Witnesses said several people had been at the apartment into the early hours; one man who had been drinking and playing dice left, returned around 8:22 a.m., and opened fire. Sidney Ward III, 20, of Highland Park, was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene. Tyrone Davis Glenn Jr., 24, of Pontiac, was also shot and died after being taken to a hospital.

Investigators found evidence the shooter had attempted to use a potato as a makeshift silencer, but neighbors still heard the shots. The suspect, identified as 32-year-old Davonte Demetri Franklin of Detroit, fled in an Uber, later abandoned the vehicle and ran near South Boulevard and Woodward Avenue. He was located about twelve hours after the killings by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Apprehension Team walking along Eight Mile Road near Evergreen and taken into custody. Two semi-automatic handguns connected to the case were recovered and Franklin was charged in connection with the deaths.