Collin West, 18, died just days before being sentenced for his role in a stabbing that left two teens injured and one dead. Investigators say it was all over a fight about a girl.
On Friday's News Hit: - An 18-year-old who was set to be sentenced in a fatal stabbing soon died in a car crash this week. - A girl was kidnapped and sexually assaulted while walking home from her Detroit school. - Citing conditions in the emergency room, doctors at Ascension St. John in Detroit walked the picket line Thursday.
Collin West, who was 16 at the time of the incident, was charged as an adult with attempted murder and first-degree home invasion and recently pleaded guilty to the lower charges in Macomb County Circuit Court as part of a plea deal with county prosecutors.
Collin West's lawyer, Jeffery Cojocar, says prosecutors agreed to the plea deal due to “some of the evidentiary and factual weaknesses in their case, and the realistic possibility that Collin could have been acquitted of all charges brought against him."