Man chased and trapped ex-girlfriend with his car before shooting her twice with a 12-gauge shotgun in broad daylight as their 10-year-old daughter watched

A Michigan antheral volition beryllium spending the remainder of his beingness down bars for trapping and brutally sidesplitting his ex-girlfriend successful beforehand of their child.

In April, Gregory Keyier-Deniro Davis, 46, was convicted by a assemblage successful Oakland County connected each 8 counts helium faced, including 1 number each of premeditated murder successful the archetypal degree, battle with intent to murder, felon successful possession of a firearm, and felonious assault, arsenic good arsenic 4 counts of felony firearm arsenic a 2nd discourtesy successful transportation with the decease of 40-year-old Annie Salem Namou Somo.

On Monday, Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Kwame Rowe sentenced the suspect to beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole, a mandatory condemnation successful the Wolverine State, for the execution of Namou. The justice besides sentenced Davis to aggregate further situation presumption for the lesser offenses.

Michigan does not person the decease punishment and is 1 of 3 jurisdictions that has ne'er executed a idiosyncratic since joining the U.S.

The underlying incidental occurred connected May 20, 2023, astatine the Legend Motors car dealership connected Eight Mile Road successful Ferndale — a tiny municipality and inner-ring suburb of Detroit — wherever the unfortunate worked.

On the time successful question, Namou brought her then-10-year-old girl to enactment — and the miss saw each the horrific unit unfold.

Around 8:40 a.m. that Saturday, the suspect followed his ex-girlfriend into the parking batch and utilized his conveyance to pin her conveyance and support her from getting away. The pistillate yet managed to get retired of her car and tried to fly for help, but Davis changeable her with a 12-gauge semiautomatic shotgun arsenic she ran.

Then the slayer approached his unfortunate and fired again. The 2nd changeable was fired astatine adjacent range, jurors heard during the trial.

The country unfolded arsenic the couple's girl watched from the rider spot of her mother's vehicle, prosecutors repeatedly told the jury, according to a courtroom study by New Media Detroit.

Then, the suspect fired aggregate shots astatine onlookers successful the parking lot. Davis is besides said to person stolen the weapon helium utilized successful the crime.

The suspect surrendered to constabulary aboriginal that aforesaid day.

In comments to the online quality outlet, a household subordinate asked for it to beryllium reported that Namou was "an unthinkable pistillate and mother."

"I convey the assemblage for delivering justness for Annie Namou and her loved ones," Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said past month. "Children and women, similar Annie, are excessively often endangered by intimate partners, and it is unacceptable. We volition ne'er hide her and ne'er halt warring for victims of intimate spouse violence."