(WWJ) A teenager accused of murdering an Oakland County Sheriff's deputy has pleaded guilty to murder and other charges.
The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office announced Tuesday that Raymone Debose, 19, agreed to plead guilty to the charges of first-degree murder and felony firearms, and spend between 33 and 60 years behind bars.
Investigators said Debose was the suspect who shot and killed deputy Brad Reckling on Detroit's east side last summer as Reckling worked to find a car that was stolen from a water park.
Two other suspects — Karim Moore of Clinton Township and Marguis Goins of Detroit — have already accepted a plea deal.
Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said, in a statement: "While my personal preference would have been for this individual to spend the rest of his life behind bars without the possibility of parole for the senseless and tragic ambush murder of behind bars without the possibility of parole for the senseless and tragic ambush murder of Deputy Reckling, I respect the work of the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office on this case."
“Most importantly, I recognize and support the fact that the widow is at peace with this decision," he said.
Late on the night of June 22, Reckling was in an unmarked patrol car searching for an SUV that had been reported stolen from the Red Oaks Water Park in Madison Heights earlier that day.
Detroit police said Reckling was behind the stolen Chevy Equinox when suspects jumped out and fired shots at him.
Reckling was hit in the head, chest and torso.
"It was an ambush," Sheriff Bouchard said at a news conference the next day.
Reckling, a nine-year veteran of the sheriff's department, was a husband and father of three daughters with another child on the way, according to the sheriff's office.