Michigan Man Charged With Murder and Other Crimes in Case Involving Ex-girlfriend and Her Toddler

Michigan Man Charged With Murder and Other Crimes in Case Involving Ex-girlfriend and Her Toddler
Rashad Trice. Michigan Department of Corrections/Detroit News via AP
The Associated Press
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Lansing, Mich.—A man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping and killing her 2-year-old daughter has been charged with murder by Michigan’s attorney general.

Attorney General Dana Nessel charged Rashad Trice, 26, on Friday with 20 counts, including one count each of first-degree premeditated murder and felony murder in Wynter Cole Smith’s strangulation death. Both charges carry a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.