On the evening of November 20, 2019, 46-year-old Detroit police officer Rasheen Mcclain was killed while serving on a response team to a reported domestic break-in on Wyoming Avenue. McClain, a 16-year department veteran, led a four-officer team clearing the home. After sweeping the main and upper floors, they descended to the basement where the armed suspect, later identified as 28-year-old JuJuan Parks, opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle. McClain was struck in the neck; a partner was wounded in the leg.

Parks fled, was shot and wounded by other officers, and was captured a block away. McClain was taken to hospital and died of his wounds and was later promoted posthumously to sergeant. The prosecutor charged Parks in a multi-count complaint that included murder of a police officer and multiple assault and weapons counts.

At sentencing, Mcclain’s widow’s impact was read into the record.