A December night in a Redford Township home on Mercedes Street ended in two deaths after a violent argument escalated. The dispute involved a man who had been staying with the family; during the confrontation he allegedly shot and killed 18-year-old Lysa Blake when she and another teenager came upstairs from the basement to intervene. Dania Phillips, 49, ran from the house but was chased and fatally shot outside. Phillips’s 16-year-old daughter witnessed the shootings; a 4-year-old boy in the home was unharmed.

Police tracked a man they believed responsible to Detroit’s east side later that day. Officers say the suspect opened fire when confronted and was shot and killed after officers returned fire, ending the immediate search for the person authorities connected to the two homicides.

Did anyone in the area know the family or the man who had been staying with them and can add details about what led up to that night?