DETROIT (WWJ) – Jaylin Brazier, the Detroit man accused of killing his cousin, Zion Foster, last year, will be back in court for a second day of his preliminary hearing on Wednesday.
Tuesday’s hearing – which will determine whether he’ll stand trial on charges of second-degree murder and tampering with evidence in connection with Foster’s disappearance and presumed death – concluded around 4:30 p.m.
But prosecutors only called about half of their witnesses in the case. Among those to testify Tuesday were several Detroit police officers.
Foster, 17 at the time she went missing in early January 2022, has never been found despite an extensive months-long search in a Macomb County landfill last summer.
Authorities searched the landfill after Brazier, now 24, told police he dumped her body in a dumpster after she stopped breathing while they were smoking marijuana at a home in Detroit.
One officer testified that Brazier told officers searching a home that he hadn’t seen Foster in “a while.” While he couldn’t remember the exact month, the officer said it was in 2020.
Brazier was eventually sentenced to jail on charges of lying to police, though he has since been released.
The search for Foster’s body at the Lenox Twp. landfill was called off last fall.
The preliminary hearing is scheduled to resume Wednesday at 11 a.m.
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