DETROIT (WWJ) -- In the early hours of September 20, 2021, off-duty Wayne County corrections officer Devante Jones was fatally shot at the Diggs Projects in Detroit.
Four men -- Malikk Williams, Gregory Freeman, Christian Bernard White and Kevin Bernard White -- were later charged in connection with his death.
Now, more details have been revealed about the events leading up to Jones’s murder.
In a hearing on Thursday, prosecutors said that the 23-year-old corrections officer, who joined the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department in October 2019, had been texting with his alleged killers just prior to his death.
The cryptic texts, read by a homicide detective, referred to obtaining guns, with one of the suspects writing that he had an “AR” and “Mag” for Jones.
The back-and-forth exchange between Jones and the suspects appeared to show he was planning to meet up with them, with Jones writing at 3:48 a.m. “I’m on my way, literally you gotta show me what.”
Then, just before 4 a.m., one suspect allegedly responded, “I’m trying to save you, for real,” to which Jones replied, “You ain’t saving (expletive).”
At 4:15 a.m., Jones was fatally shot in the parking lot of the Diggs Projects on East Forest Avenue. Found wounded, he was rushed to Detroit Receiving Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries a short time later.
The men accused in the fatal shooting were arrested in October 2021. Each are facing murder and gun charges.
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