54-year-old Theodore Paul Wafer has been charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and a related gun charge in the death of 19-year-old Renisha McBride, Michigan's Wayne County Prosecutor's Office said on Friday, as reported by The Huffington Post. Wafer allegedly shot McBride in the face on his porch in Dearborn Heights on November 2.
Several hours before the shooting, the 19-year-old reportedly crashed her car several blocks from Wafer's porch. Detroit police received a called just before 1 a.m.. "A female driver had hit a parked car and then left the scene on foot... [who] appeared disoriented and bloody."
An official explanation of McBride's "activities between the accident and her death has not been given, though her family said they believe her phone was dead after she went to [Wafter's] house looking for help," The Huffington Post reported.
"Prosecutors say that McBride knocked on the locked front screen door of the home, but there were no signs of forced entry. They also said that she was unarmed," reported The Huffington Post. At some point during the period before police arrived, McBride was allegedly shot and killed by Wafer.
Wafer was arraigned on three charges, including second-degree murder, on Friday afternoon, hours after the Wayne County prosecutor said that he "did not act in lawful self-defense."
McBride's parents spoke out for the first time since their daughter's death.
"I hope he spends the rest of his life in jail," Walter Simmons, father of 19-year-old Renisha McBride, said, referring to the man charged as the "monster that killed my daughter," as reported by NBC News.
"That is going to be the biggest tragedy, that they don't get the opportunity to see her again," Simmons said of McBride's older and younger sisters.
"I can't imagine in my wildest dreams what that man feared in her to shoot her in the face," Monica McBride, Renisha's mother said.
"The only way justice will be served is by getting a conviction, not just by filing charges," Gerald Thurswell, the McBride family attorney told ABCNews.com.
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