In the a winter evening of December 18, 2020, in Detroit, Michigan, the lives of two sisters from Highland Park were tragically cut short. Shakiya Todd, an 18-year-old female, and her 21-year-old sister, Shaniya Todd, were visiting a home on Lantz Street when a dispute escalated into fatal violence. The sisters had gone to the residence to check on a woman they knew.
An argument broke out with another individual present, 18-year-old D'Andre Smith, who was reportedly related to the woman living there.
The verbal altercation quickly turned deadly when Smith allegedly produced a firearm and shot both Shakiya and Shaniya. Following the shooting, Smith fled the scene, leaving the two sisters fatally wounded. The incident sent shockwaves through their family and the local community, who were left grappling with the sudden and senseless loss of two young lives. Shaniya was the mother of a young son who was left without his mother just days before Christmas. The family, already mourning the recent loss of the sisters' mother, was plunged into further grief.
In the days following the shooting, the Detroit Police Department launched an investigation and identified D'Andre Smith as the suspect. Smith later turned himself in to the authorities. He was subsequently charged with two counts of first-degree murder and a felony firearm violation. Smith was arraigned in 36th District Court, and a probable cause conference was scheduled for early January 2021. The case then moved through the legal system, but the final disposition of the charges against D'Andre Smith is not readily available in public online sources.
