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Donovan Barfield, 28, was killed in Lansing, Michigan after three men invited him to a dice game at his apartment on December 14, 2018. The three men then searched the apartment and stole shoes, a backpack, and neck chains before leaving.

A friend, Joe Woods, returned from his girlfriend’s house, found the apartment ransacked and Barfield’s body, and requested a welfare check that brought police to the scene. Footage from a camera on Woods’s laptop captured the suspects ransacking the apartment and was used to identify and arrest Anthony Brown, Neal Prince, and Willie Fletcher. Willie Lee Fletcher, 15 at the time, was charged as an adult with open murder and felony firearm counts. An Eaton County jury convicted 19-year-old Neal Prince in October 2019 of first-degree premeditated murder, first-degree felony murder, and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony; the conviction carries a mandatory life sentence without parole. Barfield’s mother, Betty Barfield, brought his ashes to the sentencing hearing.

Does anyone have information about the events that night or knew Donovan?