On the evening of September 23, 2020, police found the body of 48-year-old Darius Whiting of Farmington Hills inside a pickup truck near Michigan Avenue and Schlaff Street in Dearborn. Investigators determined Whiting died of multiple gunshot wounds and said the shooting did not appear to be random.

Five months after the killing, authorities arrested 54-year-old Robert Lee Bailey Jr. of Detroit. Prosecutors allege Whiting was killed on September 22, 2020, during an armed robbery and charged Bailey with first-degree murder, felony murder, armed robbery, felon in possession of a firearm, and four counts of second-degree felony firearm. Bailey had been on parole after a June 2020 release for a prior second-degree murder conviction. An initial trial ended in a mistrial and a retrial was underway in Wayne County’s third judicial circuit before Judge Mark Slavens.

If anyone has information about Whiting, his activities that week, or the events near Michigan Avenue and Schlaff Street, please share what is known.