Smothers said the prosecutor in the case offered him a plea deal if he agreed not to testify in Sanford’s case. Davontae Sanford, now 23, has been incarcerated since 2007 for the fatal shootings of four people at a Detroit drug den. A Detroit man who pleaded guilty to a quadruple homicide at 14 is expected to walk free from prison on Wednesday, years after a professional hitman claimed responsibility for the killings. Only two weeks after Sanford was sent to prison, Vincent Smothers, a self-described hitman, confessed to Detroit police investigators that he orchestrated and committed the murders. This week, police concluded a nearly year-long investigation that found a former high-ranking Detroit officer contradicted his sworn testimony in the case.

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2016 12:53 UTC