The man slain recently in Waterford Township —- found fatally shot outside the MJR theater complex on M-59 — was a 28-year-old White Lake Township resident identified in court documents as Antonn Cecil Richard Thomas.
According to the filed complaint, the killing allegedly involved a drug deal, occurring “while in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of delivery and/or conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance.”
Waterford Police Chief Scott Underwood has declined to release the name of the victim, telling The Oakland Press in an email last week that it’s “not that unusual” to do so and is done “quite often” — but didn’t specify why for this case.
The accused killers, 24-year-old Mike Vladislav Kruglik of West Bloomfield and 26-year-old Jesse Del Jordan Bradshaw of New Boston, are charged with first-degree felony murder. Felony murder is when someone is killed during the commission of a felony.
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Denied bond at their Nov. 12 arraignment before 51st District Judge Richard Kuhn, Kruglik and Bradshaw are held in the Oakland County Jail. They are scheduled to return to court Wednesday for a probable cause conference.
Thomas was found shot outside the MJR Waterford Cinema on Nov. 7. As previously reported, a news release from the Waterford Police Department stated that that a 911 call came in at around 11:30 p.m. about a man “down from an apparent gunshot wound” in the theater parking lot at 7501 Highland Road. Shot in the upper chest, he was treated at the scene by Waterford Regional Fire Department personnel and then transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Kruglik was arrested on Nov. 8 after police executed a search warrant in West Bloomfield Township. Bradshaw was arrested later that day in New Boston, where the vehicle believed to have been used in the homicide was also located, police said.
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