Stacy Wayne Rose, Jr., 18, of Taylor was bound over to circuit court for an arraignment on the information Sept. 6 on a charge of first-degree murder.
Rose is charged with slashing Robert Briscoe, 49, in the chest with a knife at about 10:30 p.m. July 30 in Huron Township as Briscoe tried to protect his sons from a crowd of teenagers in front of his home.
Briscoe, an appliance repairman who was said was able to fix anything, was the father of five with several grandchildren living in his mobile home.
A preliminary exam was held before 34th District Court Chief Judge Tina Brooks Green on Aug. 30. Five witnesses testified and then Judge Green bound Rose over to circuit court.
The witnesses testified that Rose and seven others came to the Briscoe home in Huron Estates, in the 22000 block of Inkster Road, early in the evening of July 30 to demand that Tina Briscoe pay Rose $70 that her son Tyler owed him for seven Adderall pills Rose supplied to him.
She testified she told Rose that she would check with her son when he came home and if he owed anything, she would make sure it was paid.
“Your son is a f—ing dead man,” Tina Briscoe testified that Rose said to her before he left, after she had threatened to call police if he didn’t’ go away.
She asked her husband to move her company car from the driveway so it wouldn’t get damaged by the teens in case they came back. She said she was sitting on the porch and saw her oldest son Robert, Jr., running between the trailers to their home.
A large group of from 20 to 24 teens arrived and the family tried to get Tyler out of there because they were after Tyler, Tina Briscoe testified.
She said one punched at her husband, into the left cheek, she thought. Her husband held his neck and called out, “I’m bleeding bad.” After the stabbing everyone disappeared, she said.
Robert Briscoe, Jr., also testified to the death of his father. He said Rose called Tyler and said he was coming over to fight. At first the money owed was supposed to be $70, but then it was $30, Robert said.
Robert testified he suggested they go to Brownstown Middle School if they wanted to fight because there were too many children in the Briscoe mobile home and he didn’t want any of them injured. He said he and his brothers waited at the middle school for a half hour and when Rose didn’t come, went back to his home and saw his mother on the porch.
Then, he said, four cars pulled up and people he named hopped out of the cars. He said his mother screamed and his father came out to protect them. He said his parents and his brothers had no weapons.
“Stacy punched my dad’s neck and then my dad called out, ‘He stabbed me. I’m bleeding bad.’” Robert testified. He said they laid his father on the ground and he helped his brother and a neighbor with CPR. “I knew he wasn’t going to make it,” Robert testified, referring to the gurgling in his father’s chest.
Then three teen witnesses who were at the scene testified as to what they saw. Some changed testimony from what they told Huron Township Police the morning after the murder to protect Rose, but then agreed with the prosecutor after he reminded them of their sworn statements. The courtroom was full of young people, many crying and upset.
Media reports state Rose was arrested shortly after the murder by Taylor Police on a traffic stop.
The post mortem report said Briscoe died of a stab wound to the chest, severing the carotid artery, and the method of death was homicide.
Retained defense attorney Marc Lakin said his client never said he didn’t do the stabbing, but Lakin said it wasn’t premeditated. Judge Green said since Rose came to the home first and then came back, she believes there is reason to believe there could have been pre-meditation.
This is the first homicide in Huron Township since 2009.
At Rose’s arraignment on the information at circuit court on Sept. 6, a jury trial on the charge was set for Nov. 1 before Judge Kevin J. Cox.
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