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David Kramer
Harriet Orley, Vice President
Jonathan Sterling
Carolyn Tisdale
Jay Must, Vice President
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Executive Committee
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Members-at-Large
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14 June 5 • 2014

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Preliminary Exam

Suspects arrested for shooting
attorney David Zacks to stand trial.

Ronelle Grier
Contributing
Writer
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ollowing a preliminary exam
before 48th District Court
Judge Kimberly Small, four
suspects charged with the April 30
shooting and attempted robbery of
attorney David Zacks were bound
over for trial in Oakland County
Circuit Court.
Zacks was shot through the front
door of his Bloomfield Hills home
after he refused to
open his door to
a man claiming to
be a police officer
around 11:45 p.m.
When Zacks said
he was going to
call the police, the
man, believed to
David Zacks
be accused suspect
Devon Miller, 21, fired five bullets
through the front door. Zacks was
struck three times, in the abdomen
and upper thigh.
After his wife, Rebecca, called
police, Zacks was taken to a local
hospital for emergency surgery. He
remained there for several days before
being released to continue his recovery
at home. He is reported to be in stable
condition.
Four Macomb County residents
were arrested: Cassandra Chobod, 23,
Christopher Hernandez Montiel, 20,
Henry Williams, 20, and Devon Miller,
21. Police believe the shooting was the
result of a botched robbery plan initi-
ated by Chobod, who was acquainted
with Zacks and had visited his home
prior to the incident. Attorney Mitchell
Ribitwer, who is representing Miller,
said Zacks first met Chobod at BT's
Executive Club in Dearborn, where she
worked as an exotic dancer.
Markeisha Washington, Chobod's
attorney, refused to comment on the
relationship between Zacks and her
client.
Hernandez Montiel waived his
right to a preliminary exam and
testified on behalf of the prosecu-
tion, who agreed to drop three of the
four charges against him in exchange
for his testimony, according to his
attorney Jonathan Jones. After stating
that Miller offered him $200 to drive
the other three suspects to and from
Zacks' home, Hernandez Montiel
described the events leading up to
the shooting. Borrowing his father's

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Camaro, he drove the group to
Burlington Coat Factory, where Miller
obtained some gloves, and then pro-
ceeded to Zacks' home according to
directions one of the other suspects
had programmed into a GPS device.
He said Chobod told them no one
would be home and that she knew
the locations and combinations of the
safes in the house, adding that Chobod
became agitated on the way over after
texting with Zacks and learning that
he and his family were home.
After arriving at the home,
Hernandez Montiel said the group dis-
cussed the need for an alternate plan
and directed him to drive to a house in
Detroit to obtain a gun, which he said
Miller placed under the hood of the
car. At first he claimed he was unaware
of the gun or the robbery plan, but
later admitted he was nervous about
storing a gun so close to the car's
engine. After driving back to Zacks'
house, he waited in the car while the
other three suspects approached the
house. He heard gunshots, and then
the others returned to the car and he
drove back to Miller's house.

Son Testifies

Zacks' son, Jeremy, who had been
asleep with his girlfriend in the
lower level of the home at the time
of the shooting, also took the stand.
He described hearing gunshots and
running up the stairs to find his step-
mother screaming and his father lying
on the landing bleeding.
"I asked what happened, and my
father said, 'I've been shot. An African
American shot me through the front
door;' said Jeremy, who added he did
not see who fired the gun, nor did he
see anyone running away.
The suspects are charged with
several felony counts, including
armed robbery, conspiracy to com-
mit home invasion in the first degree
and felony firearms charges. Miller is
also charged with assault with intent
to murder. Jones said Hernandez
Montiel is expected to be charged
with conspiracy to commit home
invasion in the second degree, a
felony that carries a maximum jail
sentence of 15 years. All four suspects
are being held in Oakland County Jail
on bonds ranging from $2-$5 million.
Arraignment is scheduled for June 9
in front of Oakland County Circuit
Court Judge Martha Anderson. A trial
date has not been set.

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