DETROIT (WWJ) - After years of investigation, a Garden City man has been arrested for the murder of a woman in Detroit.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has charged 32-year-old Lawrence Paul Mills, III, with First Degree Murder in connection with the killing on December 13, 2017.
Early that morning, Detroit police and EMS were dispatched to the area of Anthon and Campbell Streets where the found victim's lifeless body lying between the street and the sidewalk. She was pronounced deceased at the scene, and it was determined that she died from multiple injuries, authorities said.
An investigations into the case by the Detroit Police Department spanned over several years, leading to Mill's arrest last Friday.
It is alleged that he deliberately hit and killed the victim with his car, prosecutors said. It's unclear at this time what evidence may link Mills to the killing, or what the motive may have been.
The victim is only being identified as a 59-year-old Detroit woman at this time.
Prosecutors said further details of the case will be presented in court at the Preliminary Examination, although a date for that hearing was not immediately announced,
Mills was arraigned in 34th District Court on Sunday and remanded into custody in the Wayne County Jail without bond.
