UPDATE 7/21/23 5:18 p.m.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced new charges against Rashad Trice Friday.
According to Nessel, Trice has been charged with the following:
- One Count First Degree Premeditated Murder, a mandatory life-sentence felony without the possibility of parole
- One Count Felony Murder, a mandatory life-sentence felony without the possibility of parole
- One Count Assault with Intent to Murder, a life-sentence felony
- Two Counts 1st Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct, a life-sentence felony that would mandate lifetime sex offender registration and electronic monitoring
- Two Counts Kidnapping, a life-sentence felony
- One Count Home Invasion, first degree, a 20-year felony
- One Count Disarming a Peace Officer, a 10-year felony
- One Count 2nd Degree Fleeing and Eluding, a 10-year felony
- One Count Receiving and Concealing Stolen Property, valued between $1,000-$2,000, a five year felony
- One Count Receiving and Concealing Stolen Property, motor vehicle, a five year felony
- One Count Unlawfully Driving Away an Automobile, a five year felony
- One Count Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, a four year felony
- One Count Resisting and Obstructing Causing Injury, a four year felony
- Three Counts Resisting and Obstructing, a two year felony
- One Count Second Degree Domestic Violence - Second Offense, a one year misdemeanor
- One Count Stalking, a one year misdemeanor
The state is also charging Trice as a 4th Offense Habitual Offender.
“We have alleged today, and our many charges reflect, a horrific and brutal crime spree from Lansing to Detroit to St. Clair Shores,” said Nessel.
The Department of the Attorney General also recently announced that Attorney General Nessel, Ingham County Prosecutor John Dewane, Macomb County Prosecutor Peter J. Lucido, and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy came to an agreement to consolidate the many charges into one prosecution, and any charges previously announced against Trice by the county prosecutors will be dropped now that the state charges has been filed by the attorney general.
7/13/23 4 p.m.
The man accused of kidnapping and killing two-year-old Wynter Cole-Smith was back in court on Thursday in Ingham County.
Rashad Trice is accused of assaulting Wynter’s mother on July 2 and then leaving her apartment with Wynter.
When police arrested Trice later that day, Wynter wasn’t in the car with him. Her body was found on July 5 in Detroit.
Attorney General Dana Nessel says she will conduct the state prosecution of Trice on all his state charges, ranging from assault to home invasion. In a statement Nessel said in part, “This is a tragic case, and by consolidating the prosecution into one venue, we are recognizing the hardship the surviving victim and family continue to face.”
Besides his state charges, Trice is charged federally with kidnapping, and kidnapping resulting in death.
