Two Detroit teenagers have been sentenced this week in connection with a fatal shooting that occurred during a sneaker robbery on the city’s east side.
Barry Love, 15, and Anthony Carter, 16, (ages at the time of incident) were both sentenced this week to 20 to 40 years on murder charges.
On May 22, 2024, at approximately 3:53 p.m., Detroit police were dispatched to the area around Whittier and I-94 following reports of a shooting.
Responding officers found 16-year-old Elijah Reese—a student at East English Village Preparatory—suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the chest. Reese was pronounced dead at the scene.
The suspects robbed & shot the victim of his Alexander McQueen sneakers as he was walking near the intersection, according to investigators.
“Sitting there, listening to his mother speak about her son—how much she misses him, how he was just a good kid walking home from school, how he wasn’t caught up in the streets, wasn’t flashing guns on social media, wasn’t in a gang—just a kid being a kid. And now, he’s gone. His life stolen,” Toson Knight, a former dean & mentor at East English Village Prep, said in a social media post. “I looked around the room and saw so many people there supporting the young man being sentenced. And I couldn’t stop thinking—what if this level of support had been there for him before all of this? Before his choices led him here? Would we be in this moment at all?“
