Man accused of stabbing stepfather to death, attacking mother
Christopher McKinney
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MADISON HEIGHTS — A Madison Heights man has been charged with murder after reportedly killing his stepfather and wounding his mother over a dispute about playing video games.
The incident occurred around 11:40 p.m. Dec. 11, inside the family’s home at an apartment complex in the 300 block of East Edmund Avenue near Harlo Avenue, east of John R Road and south of Whitcomb Avenue in Madison Heights.
The suspect is Christopher McKinney, 29. His mother is 66. The stepfather was 77 when he died from his wounds at a hospital four days later on Dec. 15. McKinney was arraigned Dec. 14 in Madison Heights 43rd District Court by Magistrate Kimberly Wilson on two counts of assault with intent to murder, and two counts of assaulting, resisting and obstructing a police officer. On Dec. 16, after the stepfather died, one of the two counts of assault with intent to murder was changed to one count of open murder, which carries a penalty of up to life in prison. The assault count carries a penalty of up to life or any number of years, and the two felony counts of assault, resisting and obstructing a police officer carry a penalty of two years and/or a $2,500 fine. No attorney information for McKinney was on file at the court at press time.