A cop killer’s unchecked mental illness and the lives it destroyed
TITABAWASSEE TWP., MI -- A steel door buzzes open. Dozens of inmates enter a white day room to visit with children, parents, wives and girlfriends.
In shuffles Marquise Cromer, a 250-pound-plus, 6-foot-3 convicted cop killer.
The 23-year-old Detroit man sits in a chair that...
Cromer gets 40-75 years for killing DPD sergeant
Marquise Cromer was sentenced Thursday to 40-75 years in prison for fatally shooting a Detroit police sergeant.
Cromer also received a concurrent sentencing for shooting his father and another man during a one-man crime spree almost a year and a half ago.
Cromer shot Sgt. Kenneth...
Lawyer: Man charged in officer death incompetent for trial
DETROIT (AP) — A lawyer for a man accused of shooting a Detroit officer during a chase says a psychiatric review has found his client incompetent to stand trial.
Twenty-one-year-old Marquise Cromer is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Sgt. Ken Steil. Steil died unexpectedly Sept. 17...
State forensic center deems suspect in cop killing incompetent
A man accused of killing a Detroit police sergeant was deemed incompetentto stand trial by the state's forensic center, his attorney said today.
Marquise Cromer, 21, is facing first-degree murder and other charges in the September shooting death of Sgt. Kenneth Steil.
Sanford Schulman, Cromer's attorney, said he met...
Details on suspect in Detroit cop’s death emerge at arraignment
Marquise Cromer, the 21-year-old man accused of killing a Detroit police sergeant, refused to attend court hearings for a second day today. A judge said the suspect had been combative and threw urine at jail personnel.
"I've heard... that he's being very uncooperative and combative, and throwing urine on people," 36th District...
Accused cop killer stays in jail cell, again
Detroit — The 21-year-old Detroit man accused in connection with the killing of a Detroit Police sergeant has thrown urine on his jailers and is not complying with authorities, a Detroit judge said Wednesday.
It’s the second day in a row Marquise Cromer’s disruptive actions have affected court proceedings into...