Detroit-Area Man Charged With Fiancée's Murder Claimed He Was Cleaning Gun: Police

HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP, MI — A 21-year-old Highland Township man has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of a 23-year-old woman, according to prosecutors.

Officials found 23-year-old Rachel Renee Wooten shot dead inside a Highland Township home on April 15, prosecutors said.

Michael Devon Webb was charged with first-degree murder and felony firearm. He was placed in the Oakland County Jail without bond. His next court date is scheduled for April 30.

If convicted on the murder charge, he faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The shooting happened at 4 p.m. on April 15 inside a home in the 200 block of Maple, which is just north of Michigan 59 in Highland Township, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Webb called 911 and told officials that he had shot his fiancée and himself.

At the home, investigators found the body of Rachel Renee Wooten, 23, who had died from a single gunshot wound to the neck at "very close range," prosecutors said.

Webb was also inside the home and suffering from a non-fatal gunshot wound, which investigators believe came from the same bullet that killed Wooten, prosecutors said.

Investigators also found Wooten and Webb's six-month-old baby was in the home. Prosecutors said the child was not physically hurt.

Webb was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting "without incident" at the home. Prosecutors said he called the shooting an "accident" while cleaning his gun. Prosecutors said the evidence does not support that claim.

"Rachel Wooten was just 23 and a mother of an infant," Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said. "Her entire life was ahead of her, until it was ended in what appears to be a domestic violence tragedy. She won’t be there for her child or other loved ones in her life. I’m committed to bringing her killer to justice."