MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER, ARSON
Hubbard accused of setting house on fire to try to cover up stabbing death
A Detroit man has been charged with first-degree murder and arson for stabbing a Roseville woman in February and setting her residence on fire.
D’Angelo Hubbard, 27, was arraigned Tuesday on charges of premeditated and felony first-degree murder and first-degree arson by Judge Alyia Hakim in 39th District Court in Roseville for the death of Lisa L. Marrone, 31, according to Assistant Macomb County Prosecutor Steve Fox.
Fox said Hubbard and Marrone were dating.
Roseville firefighters on Feb. 5 responded to a fire at a unit on Phyllis Street in Jade Forest Condominiums, located southeast of Frahzo Road and Gratiot Avenue. They discovered Marrone’s body with stab wounds in the home. Police believe she was stabbed Feb. 4.
Investigators worked on the case over several weeks, developing Hubbard as a suspect through a work jacket worn by Marrone’s assailant in a ring video and records from Marrone’s cell phone, Fox said.
The jacket worn by the suspect and a television taken from Marrone’s home were found at Hubbard’s residence, Fox said.
Fox said Hubbard “made admissions” after he was arrested.
Hubbard was arrested in Wayne County on or about March 23 after police attempted to pull him over for driving a stolen vehicle, according to Fox and Wayne County Jail records.
He was arraigned remotely by Zoom video from the Wayne County Jail.
He was charged in Roseville with receiving and concealing a stolen motor vehicle different from the one in which he was driving when he was arrested in Wayne County and was ordered held without bond due to the high probability of conviction and the fact he tried to flee police previously, Fox said.
First-degree murder carries an mandatory penalty of life in prison without parole.
He is scheduled for an April 13 probable-cause conference and April 20 preliminary examination in front of Judge Kathleen Tocco.
This is the second case within a 10-month period that a Roseville woman was killed and house set on fire in an apparent attempt to conceal the slaying, according to police.
Robert M. Walton is charged with firstdegree murder and second-degree arson for the death of Janisa Sumpter, 39, whose body also was found by firefighters with stab wounds in her home in Leslie’s Mobile Home Village in April 2021 after Sumpter broke off a relationship with Walton. Walton faces an April 14 hearing in front of Judge Michael Servitto in Macomb County Circuit Court.