2 men charged with murder of 2-year-old boy on Detroit highway, investigators say it was mistaken identity
Two men were charged Tuesday with fatally shooting a 2-year-old boy on a Detroit highway — in a tragic case of mistaken identity.
Darius Lanier, 19, and Eugene Hubbard, 21, killed Brison Christian while he was in the backseat of his family’s truck Thursday night, prosecutors said.
Brison’s older brother BJ, 9, was also shot and injured. He was taken to a hospital Thursday night but later released.
Lanier and Hubbard mistook the Christian family’s vehicle for a different vehicle when deciding to open fire, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a press release. The family was driving back from BJ’s basketball practice when Brison was killed.
“The Christian family were completely innocent victims,” Worthy said. “A child is dead because adults decided that they were judge, jury and executioner. They will get a fair trial, but Brison doesn’t get to have a life.”
Cops said Lanier and Hubbard fled the scene and were arrested Saturday after an investigation, ABC News reported.
The two young men are both charged with first-degree murder, three counts of assault with intent to murder and several gun crimes, including firing from a vehicle.
