On the evening of November 8, 2020, a domestic dispute on Detroit’s East Side turned fatal when 16-year-old Rayne Nicole Dennis was struck by a bullet fired from outside a home in the 9100 block of Beaconsfield. Rayne, a Black female, was inside the front room and reportedly attempting to protect her young niece during the altercation when the shots came through the front window.

Police say the confrontation began after 22-year-old Matthew James Reeves IV arrived to pick up the daughter he shared with Rayne’s stepsister. Investigators allege Reeves retrieved a handgun from his vehicle and fired into the house, and emergency personnel found Rayne with a gunshot wound around 8:25 p.m.; she was taken to a hospital and later died of her injuries.

Reeves was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, multiple counts of assault with intent to murder, discharge of a firearm in or at a building causing death, carrying a concealed weapon, and five counts of felony firearm; he was arraigned in 36th District Court and held in jail with a probable cause conference set for late November 2020.

If anyone was in the area that night or has information about what happened inside or outside the house, please share what you know.