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Detroit police arrest suspect in mansion murder of neurosurgeon rolled up in carpet
Detroit authorities on Wednesday announced an arrest in the fatal April 2023 shooting of 57-year-old neurosurgeon Devon Hoover.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said that Desmond Burks, 34, is charged with first-degree premeditated murder, felony murder, larceny of over $20,000, using a computer to commit a crime and felony firearm possession in connection with Hoover’s murder.
“This massive investigation was conducted for over a year in conjunction with local, state and federal law enforcement partners. This investigation spanned five states and three countries. Voluminous amounts of documents and evidence were recovered,” Worthy said.
Burks and Hoover apparently had an intimate relationship, and Burks would sometimes charge Hoover for their sexual encounters, Worthy said.
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Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said Desmond Burks, 34, is charged with first-degree premeditated murder, felony murder, larceny of over $20,000, using a computer to commit a crime and felony firearm possession. (Michigan State Police)
Cellphone data allegedly shows Hoover’s phone moving back and forth between his million-dollar mansion in Detroit’s historic Boston-Edison neighborhood and Burks’ address in the Grandale area, about 15 minutes away, the day before the doctor’s murder.
The investigation crossed state lines through Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Texas and California, as well as country lines through the U.S., England and France, Worthy said.
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On April 22, a Sunday, police received a civilian complaint about a white Range Rover blocking a driveway on Coyle Street in Detroit’s Grandale neighborhood. The vehicle had blood inside, and police collected it as evidence.
Detroit police on Wednesday announced an arrest in the fatal shooting of neurosurgeon Dr. Devon Hoover. (Sheryl Gibbs Leaver/ WJBK)
Police later discovered that Hoover owned the Range Rover and traveled to his address on West Boston Boulevard — about 15 minutes from Grandale. Police noticed that Hoover’s driveway gate leading to both the front and rear of the house was “wide open,” but no one appeared to be home.
On April 23, Hoover’s family contacted 911 to request a well-being check on the neurosurgeon after he failed to visit his dying mother in Indiana. Further evidence revealed what appeared to be blood on the back entrance of Hoover’s home, and police decided to force entry into his residence, where they found Hoover dead.
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The Detroit Police Department Homicide Unit is investigating Hoover’s shooting death, which could be linked to a domestic situation. (WJBK)
“Dr. Devon Hoover was found deceased in the third-floor attic crawlspace. He was face-down. He was only wearing socks. He was wrapped in a blood-soaked carpet. He appeared to be shot in the head,” Worthy said, adding that a medical examiner later determined that he had been killed by two gunshot wounds to the head.
“He was only wearing socks. He was wrapped in a blood-soaked carpet.”
Almost immediately after his murder, authorities discovered that several of the doctor’s personal belongings were missing, including his cellphone, wallet, money, credit cards and designer watches. Fraudulent transactions were made from his financial accounts in the days following his death.
Devon Hoover, 53, was found dead inside his home. (WJBK)
Burks’ fingerprint was later found in Hoover’s Range Rover, and authorities found the neurosurgeon’s Cartier watches inside Burks’ residence.
Prior to Hoover’s murder, Burks was charged in connection with a road rage incident that left a 67-year old Dearborn man dead on April 17. The cases are unrelated, Worthy said.
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In April 2023, police took the person of interest in Hoover’s death into custody on an unrelated charge, but Detroit Police Chief James White said he believed that the person may have information about the doctor’s apparent murder.
DETROIT NEUROSURGEON FOUND SHOT DEAD INSIDE HOME: REPORT
“I’m confident that this person of interest who is in custody on an unrelated charge will provide some information for us as to what occurred,” White said.
Hoover grew up working on his family’s dairy farm, “milking the cows, planting and harvesting crops, and doing many other chores alongside the rest of the family” until he decided “early in life” to become a doctor, according to his obituary.
“At the time of his death, he had been practicing for 27 years as a board-certified neurosurgeon specializing in the treatment of neck and back disorders,” the obituary states.
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ST. LOUIS — — Rakim Chaney had 18 points in Valparaiso’s 63-62 win over Indiana State on Thursday in the first round of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.
Chaney added five rebounds, five assists, and three steals for the Beacons (18-14). JT Pettigrew added 14 points while going 5 of 8 and 3 of 6 from the free-throw line while they also had seven rebounds. Brody Whitaker finished with 10 points.
Camp Wagner led the Sycamores (11-21) in scoring, finishing with 13 points, eight rebounds and four assists. Indiana State also got 12 points and three blocks from Ian Scott. Enel St. Bernard finished with 10 points, six rebounds and four steals. The loss was the Sycamores’ seventh in a row.
Chaney scored nine points in the first half and Valparaiso went into halftime trailing 37-28. After trailing by nine points in the second half, Valparaiso went on a 7-0 run to narrow the score to 37-35 with 17:11 remaining in the half before finishing off the victory. Pettigrew scored 12 second-half points.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa — IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Morez Johnson Jr. and Yaxel Lendeborg scored 16 points apiece, and Aday Mara had two tiebreaking shots in the final 1:22 as No. 3 Michigan defeated Iowa 71-68 on Thursday night.
The Wolverines (28-2, 18-1 Big Ten) were held 18 points below their season scoring average, but managed to hold off the Hawkeyes (20-10, 10-9) in the closing seconds.
Iowa went on an 11-1 run to tie the game at 64 with 1:56 to play before Mara banked in a shot before the shot clock expired, putting Michigan in front again. After Iowa’s Cam Manyawu scored inside to tie the game at 66, Mara, who finished with 14 points on 7-for-10 shooting, scored off a lob with 43 seconds left to put the Wolverines ahead to stay.
Iowa had chances to tie the game on back-to-back possessions, but missed three shots on one of the possessions and lost the ball on another after a turnover by Tavion Banks with seven seconds left.
The Hawkeyes had a final chance to tie the game after Lendeborg made two free throws with four seconds remaining, but Bennett Stirtz’s 3-pointer try was long.
Elliot Cadeau added 11 points for the Wolverines, the Big Ten regular-season champions.
Stirtz led Iowa with 21 points. Manyawu had 14.
Michigan had a 38-25 rebounding edge on the Hawkeyes.
The game was tied at 30 at halftime. Michigan shot 50% from the field, but committed 12 turnovers that Iowa turned into 16 points.
The Hawkeyes were 11 of 31 from the field, with Stirtz especially struggling to make shots. Stirtz, Iowa’s leading scorer this season, made just one of his first nine shots, then hit back-to-back 3-pointers in a 27-second span to give Iowa a 30-28 lead.
Up next
Michigan: Hosts No. 8 Michigan State on Sunday.
Iowa: At No. 9 Nebraska on Sunday.
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Jeremy Fears had 21 points and eight assists and Coen Carr also scored 21, helping No. 8 Michigan State hold off Rutgers 91-87 on Thursday night.
The Spartans (25-5, 15-4 Big Ten) will close the regular season on the road against rival and third-ranked Michigan on Sunday.
Michigan State has won five straight games to secure a top-four seed in next week’s Big Ten Tournament and a double-bye into the quarterfinals.
The Scarlet Knights (12-18, 5-14) have slumped toward the bottom of the 18-team conference.
Rutgers’ Tariq Francis scored 25 points, Lino Mark had 14 and Emmanuel Ogbole added 13.
Michigan State trailed by a point at halftime and took control with an 11-0 run. Carr dunked three times in 1:13 and Jordan Scott followed with a slam 32 seconds later.
The Spartans had a comfortable cushion until the final minute, when their 10-point lead was trimmed to two. Fears sealed the win with two free throws with 2.9 seconds left.
Jaxon Kohler scored 15 points and Carson Cooper added 14 in the final home game for both seniors.
Michigan State celebrated its seniors after the game, including Nick Sanders, son of Hall of Fame running back Barry Sanders of the Detroit Lions.
The school honored a military veteran, as it does every game before the national anthem is played, and the latest was Kohler’s 102-year-old great grandfather, Earl “Chuck” Kohler, who served in the Navy and is one of 12 remaining survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack.
Up next
Rutgers: Host Penn State on Sunday.
Michigan State: At No. 3 Michigan on Sunday.
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