Nineteen year old Renisha McBride was killed by 54 year old homeowner Theodore Paul Wafer on November 2 in Dearborn Heights, MI after trying to seek help from him after she was in a car crash. Hours after a Wayne County prosecutor announced three charges, one of them being second degree murder, against him, Wafer turned himself in. Bond was set at $250,000. The Wayne County medical examiner’s office declared her death a homicide and received a shotgun blast to the face from a distance.

Police said that McBride was involved in a car crash in Detroit and knocked on Wafer’s door looking for help. McBride was “bloodied, disoriented and appeared to be confused” after the crash, said witnesses, according to Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy. Wafer told police that he thought McBride was breaking in and that his shotgun went off by accident. The murder of McBride, who was unarmed and black by Wafer who is white, has raised questions and protests from her family and civil rights leaders, who believe that racial profiling, may have played a role in her death. “The charging decision has nothing to do whatsoever with the race of the parties. Whether it becomes relevant later on, I don't know,” said Worthy.

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Michigan has a self-defense law that states that residents have no obligation to retreat while in their own homes if they honestly believe that they are in imminent danger of death or bodily harm. Toxicology reports from the office of the medical examiner revealed that McBride had high blood alcohol content, .218 percent, three times higher than the legal driving limit of 0.08, as well as marijuana in her system, at the time of her death.

The McBride family’s attorney, Gerald Thurswell, said that Wafer called 911 after he shot McBride, and the police arrived shortly. “If he had called 911 when he heard her outside his house, they would have been there within two minutes and she would be alive today, maybe she would have been arrested for being intoxicated, but she would not be dead,” added Thurswell. He also said that he does not believe that the results of the toxicology report will have any bearing on the case. “If she was intoxicated, and apparently she was…that gives nobody justification to blow off her head. She was outside making noise. We don't shoot drunks who are making noise,” said Thurswell.

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