Suspect in shooting ordered to trial
A man suspected of shooting a 19-year- old Ferndale woman as she slept was ordered to stand trial on attempted murder felony gun charges.
Omar Alexander-Roman Coney, 47, of Detroit was bound over for trial by Ferndale 43rd District Judge Joseph Longo after a preliminary hearing Monday where five people, including police, testified about the April 30 shooting in the 300 block of West Bennet.
Police said the victim, 19, is lucky to be alive and was sleeping inside her mother’s house when she was shot. Coney is also charged with attempted murder in connection with a shooting June 17 in West Bloomfield.
Ferndale police said it was evidence from the other shooting that led investigators to Coney as a suspect in the attack of the Ferndale woman, who was shot four times but survived.
The two separate shootings are not connected. The Ferndale shooting appeared to involve a dispute involving an acquaintance of the teen victim’s family, police said. The acquaintance was the intended target, but the suspect mistakenly shot the sleeping young woman, police said.
Coney is jailed on $500,000 bond in the Ferndale case and $1.5 million bond in the shooting in West Bloomfield.
He is scheduled to be arraigned for trial at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 17 before Circuit Judge Leo Bowman.