Teen Found Dead Three Days After Helping Police

[LongHairBri]

Detroit News — Three days before a local teen died, she made a decision that might have cost her her life.

 

Shelley Hilliard, 19, a transgender woman, was about to be arrested for possession of marijuana Oct. 20 when police offered a way out, according to testimony during a court hearing Thursday. She could set up a drug deal.

 

With the police listening on speaker phone, Hilliard used her cellphone to call Qasim Raqib, telling him she had someone (an undercover agent) who wanted to buy $335 worth of cocaine and marijuana, according to testimony during Raqib's preliminary examination Thursday in 36th District Court.

 

When Raqib arrived at the Motel 6 in Madison Heights 20 minutes later, police arrested him.

 

Raqib, 30, of Detroit, was released several hours later. Three days later, the mutilated body of Hilliard was discovered ablaze in the street on Detroit's east side.

 

Raqib was charged with the murder. His preliminary exam resumes Jan. 13.

 

During the hearing, testimony suggested two days after his arrest, Raqib bought a prepaid cellphone that he used to lure Hilliard to her death.

 

The next day, Hilliard received a call to meet a man at 1 a.m. at 933 Longfellow St.

 

She was driven to the site by Robert Mullen, a taxi driver who testified during the hearing that he took Hilliard on all her calls.

 

During the drive, Hilliard told Mullen she was worried about payback by Raqib for turning him in. Mullen arrived at the dark neighborhood to find three people, but couldn't identify them.

 

Soon after dropping Hilliard off, Mullen got a call from her sounding scared, testified Mullen. The phone then sounded like it fell to the ground and went dead, he said.

 

He returned to 933 Longfellow but there was no sign of Hilliard or the three other people, he said.

 

Mullen tried to call Hilliard several times. At first, the calls rang before going to voicemail. They then went directly to voicemail, suggesting the phone had been turned off.

 

Her burned body was discovered 3½ hours later on a service road along Interstate 94.

 

Two days later, Mullen and Hilliard's mother, Lyneice Nelson, went to police to fill out a missing person's report.

 

An impassive Raqib, in cornrows and prison greens, is charged with first-degree murder and mutilation.

[+Annnie]

So what youre saying is the police forcing young ppl to narc out big drug dealers and such is putting our youth at risk of mutilation and death by fire?

[cristinew]

the war on drugs this is what the police want?

[I wood]

the war on drugs this is what the police want?

war = funding.

[thanks2]

Another life lost in the war on drugs. Not sure how those that support this war sleep at night.

 

We never see any revenge killings for beer. Take the business away from criminals or at least take the gateway to the black market away.

[Timmahh]

how this can not be accessory to murder is beyond me.

 

It is blantently obvious the cost of anyones life, is far below the value of an arrest....

 

 

These cops should be tried for 1st degree muder, right along with Raqib.

[greenbuddha]

It all about the 'money' and getting a 'promotion'.

 

The more 'busts' a 'department' can show, the more money they receive to 'fight crime'.

[Kingdiamond]

Do you guys actually believe they cared when either of these people died ?

 

To them and their drug war fueled minds they were non humans that were used as sacrificial lambs to bust low level street dealers trying to snag a bigger fish once they get them scared like these two people were nothings going to change here or in Tallahassee no matter how man innocents die or how much settlement money gets spent.

[Wild Bill]

the war on drugs this is what the police want?

 

They get a twofer on this one, drugs and murder!

 

Probably so happy they have to sit on their hands to keep them from clappin'.

[Croppled1]

The act only works in a safe manner if qualfied participants can obtain all necessary supply from within the closed patient community .Patients are often of diminished capacity and it is terrible to involve them in the war on drugs . All activity must be supported in a legal and distinct way so as to be seperated from existing criminal activity . Patients through their suffering should not be exploited by either side of the cruel and corrupt war on drugs .