Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Man asks forgiveness in the slaying of his sometime girlfriend in her Royal Oak apartment in September.
Update, 2:10 p.m.: Begging his victim's family for forgiveness, 24-year-old Christopher Hearn was sentenced Wednesday to 48-90 years in prison for the brutal slaying of his off-and-on Royal Oak girlfriend. Before Oakland County Chief Circuit Judge Nanci Grant sentenced Hearn, the Clinton Township man asked the judge if he could turn and address the family of Ranae Chupick, who was 41 years old at the time of her death. Chupick was beaten and stabbed at least 12 times in her Rochester Road apartment. In tears, Hearn told Chupick’s mother, Sheila Adams, and only sibling, Julie Powers, both of whom were seated in the Pontiac courtroom, that he only remembered bits and pieces of the events of the night of Sept. 18-19. On that night, an …
Monday, March 5, 2012
Plea could mean the Clinton Township man will one day walk free in the stabbing death of the Royal Oak woman.
Christopher Hearn, 24, pleaded no contest this morning to second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 41-year-old Ranae Chupick of Royal Oak, whose body was found by co-workers in her Rochester Road apartment Sept. 19. Hearn had been charged with open murder, which encompasses first- and second-degree murder. Hearn's attorney, Steven Lynch, told the court his client was intoxicated at the time of the slaying. Hearn faces 22-56 years in prison when he is sentenced March 28 before Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Nanci Grant, the Detroit Free Press reported, which means he may be paroled one day. Hearn was arrested Sept. 21 at the Clinton Township townhouse of Kevin Kaminske after law enforcement officials received a tip from Kaminske …
Thursday, December 15, 2011
The Clinton Township man charged in the slaying of a 41-year-old woman in her Rochester Road apartment arraigned in Oakland County Circuit Court .
Christopher Michael Hearn, 23, was arraigned in Oakland County Circuit Court Thursday afternoon in the stabbing death of 41-year-old Ranae Ann Chupick. Judge Nanci Grant set a trial date of March 5. On Sept. 19, co-workers who were worried Chupick had not shown up at work went to her apartment and found her lifeless body inside in her second-floor home above the Skin Boutique salon on Rochester Road north of 13 Mile. The apartment showed signs of a struggle, and Chupick was found partially nude, beaten and stabbed at least 12 times, Dectective Don Swiatkowski said in court Sept. 23. The 41-year-old woman's throat had been slashed and she’d been hit in the head with a blunt object, he said. Royal Oak Police said Hearn lived with Chupick …
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Christopher Hearn, who faces an open charge of murder in the slaying of Ranae Chupick in her Rochester Road apartment Sept. 19, is scheduled for a preliminary exam.
The man facing an open charge of murder in the stabbing death of 41-year-old Ranae Ann Chupick of Royal Oak is scheduled to appear at 9 a.m. Friday in 44th District Court before Judge Terrence Brennan for a preliminary examination. The court date for Christopher Michael Hearn, 23, of Clinton Township had previously been rescheduled to grant prosecutors time to arrange for a “necessary witness” to be in court. "Everything appears to be on target for (Friday)," Royal Oak Police Detective Don Swiatkowski said Wednesday. Hearn was initially in court Sept. 30, but the hearing was postponed to grant his defense time to review evidence and for autopsy reports to be completed. Royal Oak Police said Hearn lived with Chupick briefly last year and …
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Friday, September 23, 2011
Christopher Hearn is arraigned on open murder charge in the brutal stabbing death of sometime girlfriend Ranae Ann Chupick.
Christopher Michael Hearn, 23, of Clinton Township was arraigned Friday afternoon on a charge of open murder in the brutal stabbing death of Ranae Ann Chupick in her Royal Oak apartment earlier this week. Hearn lived with Chupick briefly last year and was arrested on a charge of domestic assault on Chupick in 2010 but not convicted, Royal Oak police said Friday. Hearn was released from state prison in January 2010 after serving about 3 1/2 years on a Livingson County home invasion conviction, state records show. During Friday's hearing before Judge Terrence Brennan at 44th District Court in Royal Oak, Police Detective Don Swiatkowski described the bloody scene and details of the killing of 41-year-old Chupick in her second-floor home above…
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Margaret
6:27 pm on Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Dear Mr. Wolf, While it is easy to blame the schools when something or someone goes wrong in society. I was one of Chris' teachers and can speak to the whole team that worked with him all the way through high school. The school gave every ounce of intervention, attention, encouragement, and nurturing to this young man. However, he came to his adoptive parents after experiencing extreme child … more ›