Murder of Renisha McBride | |
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Location | West Outer Drive, Dearborn Heights, Michigan, U.S. |
Coordinates | 42°20′25″N 83°15′20″W / 42.340243°N 83.255449°W[1] |
Date | November 2, 2013 4:42 am |
Attack type | Murder by shooting |
Weapon | Shotgun |
Victim | Renisha McBride, aged 19 |
Perpetrator | Theodore Wafer |
Motive | Erroneous fear that McBride was trespassing |
Verdict | Guilty of all charges |
Convictions | |
Sentence | 17 to 32 years in prison |
Litigation | $10 million lawsuit filed against Wafer by Renisha McBride's family[2] |
The murder of Renisha Marie McBride (April 11, 1994 –November 2, 2013), a 19-year-old African American teenager, occurred on November 2, 2013, in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, United States. Renisha McBride crashed her car while intoxicated at a street in Detroit, and then walked to a neighborhood in Dearborn Heights where she knocked on the door of a house. The homeowner, 54-year-old Theodore Wafer, shot McBride with a shotgun. Wafer contended that the shooting was accidental and that he thought his home was being broken into after he heard her banging on his door at 4:42 in the morning.[3]
Wafer was convicted of second-degree murder on August 7, 2014,[4] and received a sentence of 17 to 32 years in prison. His sentence was re-affirmed in 2022.[5]
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