Moments later, her friends – including Terrelle – jumped into the car and she drove away, she said. She and her other friends followed Stokes, Reese and Terrelle, and moments later she saw Terrelle with a gun pointed upward which he then fired, she said.īailey said when she heard the gunfire, she ran to her car and started the engine, then heard four more shots. She claimed Reese was rude and “cussing” at Terrelle as he passed ahead of him, and that he told Terrelle to meet him in the parking lot. Yet on cross examination, defense attorney Lillian Daillo pointed out a discrepancy between Stokes’ testimony and the statement she had given to authorities after the shooting, in which she said “(Reese and Terrelle) had exchanged a few words” prior to them leaving the line.Īnother witness taking the stand, Courtnie Bailey, 18 – who went to Erebus with Terrelle and a few other friends – gave testimony that conflicted with Stokes’ account of what transpired while they waited in line. Stokes also testified that Reese had been calm and unarmed, and the only words exchanged between him and Terrelle were “excuse me” as they tried to reach their friends in line. Reese, shot in the side, neck and chest, was pronounced dead at McLaren-Oakland Hospital. Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies arrived moments later and Star EMS was called. Teenager sought as suspect in deadly shooting near Erebus haunted house Teenager arrested in connection with shooting near Erebus haunted house When they returned a short time later, they tried to make their way to their friends who were several people ahead of them in line, Stokes testified, but “a guy in a hoodie”- later identified as Terrelle – wouldn’t let them through.Īttorney asks judge to recuse herself in Erebus homicide case, jailed teen suspect denied bond 26, and the three were dropped off to wait in line while Stokes and Reese headed to a nearby store to purchase a facemask for one of the friends. The couple and three friends had gone to Erebus late on Sept. Investigators believe the slaying stemmed from a dispute the two had while waiting in line.Īmong the witnesses testifying at the preliminary exam was Daziah Stokes, who said she was Reese’s girlfriend at the time of the shooting. Terrelle is charged with first-degree murder and a firearms-related offense. The case against a Detroit teenager charged with a fatal shooting near the Erebus haunted house attraction in Pontiac last fall has been bound over to Oakland County Circuit Court.Īt the conclusion of a preliminary exam Friday, 50th District Judge Ronda Gross determined there was enough evidence that Damon Parker Terrelle, 18, murdered Douglas Reese, 29, also of Detroit, in a parking lot across the street from the attraction on South Perry Street.

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