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Michigan man randomly executes toddler in front of her mom:
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Date: February 18th, 2026 6:05 PM Author: ,.,..,.,..,.,.,.,..,.,.,,..,..,.,,..,.,,. michiganders, why are you're people so evil? how do you justify this?
https://www.wlns.com/news/court-documents-break-down-events-of-deadly-delta-twp-shooting/
Court documents break down events of deadly Delta Twp. shooting
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — 6 News has obtained court documents detailing the events of Friday’s deadly shooting in Delta Township that led to the death of a 3-year-old girl and severely injured both her parents and a nearby woman who tried to help them.
According to the affidavit of probable cause, on Friday, Feb. 13, Eaton County deputies were dispatched to the area of Green Meadows Drive and Farmstead Lane in Delta Township at around 5:30 p.m. for an “active shooter.”
When they arrived, they found four victims in the front yard of a home on Green Meadows Drive. The 3-year-old girl was pronounced dead at the scene. Her parents, a 33-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man, were found with gunshot wounds. A 72-year-old woman was also found with serious injuries.
While investigating the scene, deputies found a 12-gauge shotgun with what appeared to be “human hair and flesh stuck in the muzzle end of the barrel,” in the yard. They also found multiple used shotgun shells on the ground.
Deputies found a gray Chrysler 200 crashed in the backyard of another home on Green Meadows Drive. The vehicle was registered to a man who lived at an address near the scene, who later told investigators his son, 21-year-old Alexander Lamar Banks Jr., was the one driving it.
At around 6:00 p.m. that same day, Eaton County Dispatch received a call saying there was a man in the 3700 block of West Saginaw Highway, around two miles from the scene, saying he shot somebody. Deputies arrived at the scene, where they found Banks and took him into custody. He would later be charged with several felonies, including first-degree murder for the incident.
During the investigation, deputies spoke to a man who lived in the home whose yard the victims were found in. He told them he heard a loud crash from behind his home and looked out of a window to see a man get out of a car that crashed in the backyard of a neighboring home. The man said he heard several bangs that “sounded like gunshots,” and he and his daughter ran to the basement to hide.
On the way to the basement, the man said he looked out of his front window and saw a man pointing a shotgun at another man on the ground, after which he heard a loud bang and a lot of screaming. Then, he called 911.
The man also told law enforcement he had a doorbell camera that recorded the incident and turned the footage over to investigators.
According to court documents, upon reviewing the video, detectives found that the family was walking down Green Meadows Drive at around 5:26 p.m., with the parents pulling their daughter in a pink wagon. Then, the Chrysler, which was traveling at a high rate of speed, swerved off the road and hit the family.
The woman was thrown forward while the other two fell to the ground where the collision occurred. The Chrysler then crashes into a nearby structure. The woman is then seen running back to the other two victims with the driver of the vehicle following behind her, who can be seen dropping a backpack and raising a shotgun.
The driver then begins to shoot at the family, appearing to hit all three of them before running back to the discarded backpack, reloading the shotgun, and firing another shot at the man at close range.
Court documents say the video shows the 72-year-old woman, a neighbor, running towards the driver, who hits her “repeatedly” with the shotgun, using it as a blunt force object.
The suspect then drops the gun and runs off, jumping a fence.
According to court documents, investigators spoke to the 33-year-old woman at the hospital. According to her firsthand account of the shooting, she was with her daughter and her husband.
She says she was hit by the car and saw the driver get out and run towards her before punching her husband. When she tried to pull the driver off of her husband, she says the driver grabbed her by her hair and began pulling it “as if he was trying to break her neck.”
The 33-year-old woman also said she witnessed the driver beating the 72-year-old woman with a gun before running off.
According to court documents, when Banks was questioned by detectives, he told them he had been “receiving threats online and people were telling him to kill someone to save his family.”
Banks told investigators that he filled his backpack with shotgun shells and took his father’s gun on Thursday, Feb. 12, and the next day, he drove around his neighborhood in his father’s car multiple times before spotting the family and intentionally crashing his car into them, specifically trying to hit the man.
Court documents say he told investigators he got out of the car, grabbed the gun, and began shooting at the family he crashed into, before beating the man and an older woman who ran toward him with the shotgun. Then, he said, he dropped the gun and ran away.
Tuesday, Banks was arraigned on one count of first-degree premeditated murder, three counts of assault with intent to murder, four counts of felony firearm, one count of carrying a weapon with unlawful intent, and one count of possessing a loaded firearm in or upon a vehicle in the 56-A District Court in Eaton County.
At the request of his defense attorney, Judge Adrianne K. Van Langevelde ordered that Banks be evaluated as to whether or not he is competent to stand trial. The prosecutor also requested that he be denied bond, which the judge granted.
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