On the evening of February 22, 2021, what first looked like a two-car crash on I-96 near Grand River in Detroit became a homicide scene. Michigan State Troopers responding at about 8:12 p.m. found 31-year-old Bernard Waller on the westbound shoulder; he had sustained several gunshot wounds and was dead. Investigators determined Waller had been in a Dodge Durango with his girlfriend when someone in a Dodge Charger fired on their vehicle.

The shooting also set off chaotic events on the freeway. A 27-year-old Detroit man, Emmanuel Woodward, was struck and killed by a vehicle while trying to flee across the eastbound lanes. In the days after the attack, authorities arrested 39-year-old David Easterly of Detroit and charged him with first-degree murder, assault with intent to murder, felon in possession of a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon, and multiple counts of felony firearm. Easterly had a prior second-degree murder conviction from 1998 and had been released from prison in June 2020. His arraignment and pretrial dates were set in March 2021.

Does anyone have information about the shooting, the vehicles involved, or what happened on that stretch of I-96 that night?