MI - Neurosurgeon Dr. Devon Hoover, 53, found fatally shot during welfare check, Detroit, Apr 2023

[ilovewings]

Family, friends of murdered Detroit doctor say they knew who the killer was all along

Last week Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced murder charges against 34-year-old Desmond Burks, naming Burks as the killer of Dr. Hoover.

www.clickondetroit.com

DETROIT – Some murders go unsolved. Some go cold for months, years. Some are never solved.

In the shocking case of Dr. Devon Hoover -- found with two gunshots to his head, his body wrapped up in a bloody carpet and stuffed into a cramped upper crawlspace in the doctor’s massive Boston Edison home -- we are told the investigators were given the name of the person who allegedly did it, as one person tells me “from the jump.”

Last week Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced murder charges against 34-year-old Desmond Burks, naming Burks as the killer of Dr. Hoover.

Worthy started by saying that the complex investigation that finally led to charges 16 months later spanned five states and two countries.

The report, she said, is 181 pages long. Hours of video were gathered and poured over. Cell phone data was extracted and analyzed...

Apparently this is a complicated case- Hopefully we will find out eventually why this case extended into five states and two countries!!

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Man charged in murder of well-known Detroit doctor appears in court

The man accused of killing a well-known Detroit neurosurgeon whose body was found wrapped in a carpet in his attic had his first court appearance Thursday.

www.clickondetroit.com

DETROIT – The man accused of killing a well-known Detroit neurosurgeon whose body was found wrapped in a carpet in his attic had his first court appearance Thursday.

Desmond Burks, 34, of Detroit, appeared virtually in front of Judge Kenneth King for a probable cause conference on Thursday morning, Aug. 15, 2024.

Burks sat hunched over in a chair as his defense attorney requested a competency examination.

King scheduled a review date for 8:30 a.m. Nov. 15, 2024, but it’s possible the examination could be done soon...

 

[LadyL]

Intimate partner. I bet this is the same guy they took into custody early on and then released.

yes according to this article:

Worthy confirmed that Burks was the person of interest who was taken into custody in this case on April 28, 2023, and released on May 2, 2023.

Everything we know after major update in mysterious murder of well-known Detroit doctor

Officials provided a major update Wednesday in the mysterious murder of a well-known Detroit neurosurgeon whose body was found wrapped in a carpet in his attic more than 15 months ago.

www.clickondetroit.com

 

[LaborDayRN]

Bumping for Dr. Hoover.

 

[Cota332]

The accused & charged killer, Desmond Burks has been found to be competent to stand trial by The Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry this month. Burks' lawyer, Gabi Silver, is pursuing an independent psychiatric evaluation that will take place in February.

Burks is officially charged with :

"[...] first-degree murder, felony murder, larceny of over $20,000, using a computer to commit a crime, possession of a weapon by a felon and three counts of second-offense felony firearm."

LE says that Dr. Hoover maintained an 'intimate relationship' with Burks, and would occasionally pay Burks for sexual services.

In addition to killing Dr. Hoover, LE says that Burks stole approximately $30,000 and two watches worth more than $6,000 each from Hoover.
LE confirmed that Burks is the same individual that was initially arrested five days after Dr. Hoover's murder - and has been surveilled since then as the main suspect.

Burks also been in the Wayne County Jail since May due to an unrelated murder stemming from an apparent road rage incident.

 

[Lusitana]

Was he paid for sexual services or were they in a relationship (casual or serious) and, occasionally, Hoover would help him out financially? Because that's not the same thing.

 

[LaborDayRN]

@Cota332 Thank you for the update. I'm glad we're getting some information on Dr Hoover's murder. It's been crickets for so long.....

I hope his family has been kept in the loop to some extent by LE. I can't imagine what the year and a half without an update for the family would be like.

 

[Marysmith]

@Cota332 Thank you for the update. I'm glad we're getting some information on Dr Hoover's murder. It's been crickets for so long.....

I hope his family has been kept in the loop to some extent by LE. I can't imagine what the year and a half without an update for the family would be like.

Also it seems like the alleged killer was known to be a suspect the whole time... which would be so hard to have to deal with on another level, them not being charged, etc...