GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Rashad Maleek Trice will not face the death penalty if convicted of killing a two-year-old Lansing girl last summer, according to media partner 6 News WLNS in Lansing.
U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Mark Totten in a court filing this week said he will not seek the death penalty in the case against Trice.
Trice is accused of kidnapping and killing of two-year-old Wynter Cole-Smith. The girl was abducted from her mother’s home in Lansing over the Fourth of July holiday. Her body was found in an alley in Detroit several days later.
Trice was charged with murder in federal court. The case will be tried in U.S. District Court in the Western District of Michigan, located in Grand Rapids.
