The Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry found Desmond Burks was competent to stand trial in December, but Burks's attorney Gabi Silver asked for an independent evaluation, as well.

Desmond Burks, 34, was charged this week with first-degree murder, felony murder, larceny and other crimes in the April 2023 shooting of Dr. Devon Hoover. Authorities discovered Hoover’s body in ...

Desmond Burks, the man accused of killing well-known Detroit neurosurgeon, Dr. Devon Hoover, was found competent to stand trial, according to results of a psychological evaluation.

Police in Detroit, Michigan, recently arrested 34-year-old Desmond Burks as a suspect in the April 2023 murder of 53-year-old ...

Officials have announced that a man has been charged with murder in relation to the mysterious killing of a top neurosurgeon more than a year after his death. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy ...

A man charged in the homicide of prominent Detroit neurosurgeon Dr. Devon Hoover has been found competent to stand trial ...

Cellphone records showed Hoover had exchanged about 4,000 text messages with a phone number attributed to Desmond Burks. Prosecutors allege Burks and Hooever were in an intimate relationship.

Those five are James Albert Cook, Christian Grant Fox, Jose Leonardo Rodriguez, Desmond Garnell Burks and Bernard Burgess. Cook, Fox and Rodriguez are all facing drug charges, including possession ...

Desmond Burks is charged with first-degree murder and other charges in the alleged killing of Hoober. Prosecutors say Burks had an intimate relationship with Hoover, and an analysis of Hoover's ...