On the evening of September 1, 2019, a planned meeting in the Taco Bell parking lot on Eight Mile Road in Warren, Michigan, for a marijuana sale turned into a fatal robbery. Twenty-three-year-old Danny Ray Richards, a Black/African American man, was riding in the passenger seat of a 2005 Mercedes Benz with his aunt’s boyfriend when two men, identified as Deonte Theodore Rice and Anthony Walker, arrived and opened fire into the vehicle. Richards was struck, managed to get into his sister’s car, and was driven toward St. John Hospital, but his injuries were fatal.

After the shooting the suspects pulled the driver from the Mercedes, took his Rolex and the car, then fled; the Mercedes was found about an hour later abandoned and burned in Detroit. The suspects attempted to sell the stolen Rolex at a pawn shop, which led investigators to identify and arrest Rice and Walker. Both were charged in connection with the robbery and shooting; Deonte Theodore Rice later pleaded no contest to carjacking and armed robbery and received a 23 to 60 year prison sentence.

Did anyone who knew Danny or who was in that area on September 1, 2019, see anything that might help clarify what happened that night?