By SUE SUCHYTA
Times-Herald Newspapers
DEARBORN — An attempted vehicle theft that resulted in shots being fired by the intended victims resulted in murder charges being filed against the vehicle owners, and with “attempting to conceal a death” charges being brought against the would-be thieves.
Two men, Mohammed Haitham Ahmad and Ali Haitham Ahmad, fired shots in the 5400 block of Argyle Street, about 3:40 a.m. Sept. 8, at a vehicle driven by a person they thought was trying to steal a vehicle from their property, police said.
Police officers later learned that the driver, Shadid Al-Aziz Muhammad, sustained a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, but an uninvolved passenger, Paige Marie Knox, died as a result of a gunshot wound. A third passenger, Ebony Aaron Pugh, was unharmed.
Muhammad and Pugh allegedly disposed of Knox’s body in a Detroit alley, then torched the car they were driving in a different location.
Dearborn police officers arrested the four men Sept. 19, and the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office charged the Ahmads with second degree murder, manslaughter and felony firearm. They were remanded without bond.
Muhammad and Pugh were charged with attempted unauthorized driving away of an automobile, concealing a death and third-degree arson. They were granted bond.