Royal Oak Tribune

Attorney for slain jeweler is fourth murder suspect

Marco M. Bisbikis suspected of being mastermind behind the fatal shooting

- By Mike McConnell mmcconnell@medianewsg­roup.com

Attorney Marco M. Bisbikis, 38, is accused of murder and will appear for a court hearing next week with three co-defendants charged in what police say was a targeted hit on Oak Park jeweler Daniel Hutchinson.

Bisbikis of Novi, a managing partner at a personal injury law office in Southfield, was arraigned Friday in Oak Park 45th District Court on charges of first-degree murder, solicitati­on of murder, and a felony firearm charge.

The attorney is suspected of being the mastermind behind the fatal shooting of Hutchinson, 47, on June 1.

Bisbikis had reportedly drafted a will for Hutchinson from which the suspect stood to benefit, according to FOX 2 News.

Hutchinson of Pleasant Ridge owned Hutch’s Jewelry on Greenfield, and counted famous rappers and other wealthy clients among his customers. He was gunned down inside his SUV as his wife, Marissa, sat in the passenger seat outside

Hutchinson had just left his recently purchased pawn shop at 21380 Greenfield about a mile south of his jewelry store.

Oak Park police have said Marissa Hutchinson was also supposed to be shot in the targeted hit job, but was uninjured after suspect Roy Larry, 44, fired more than a dozen shots into the SUV.

Neither police nor Bisbikis’s defense attorney returned phone calls from the Tribune on Monday.

Larry, his older brother Darnell Larry, 57, Angelo Raptoplous, 32, of Commerce Township, and Bisbikis all face murder and conspiracy to commit murder charges, and are jailed without bond.

At Bisbikis’s arraignmen­t Friday his attorney, James Thomas, unsuccessf­ully

sought to have his client released on bond with an electronic tether.

John Skrzynski, chief of litigation for the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office, argued against releasing Bisbikis.

“There is ample evidence that Mr. Bisbikis participat­ed in the murder as an aider and abbetor,” Skrzynski said via Zoom during the arraignmen­t before Oak Park 45th Judge Michelle Friedman Appel, “and that he supplied informatio­n regarding the location of the victim and the time … and the manner in which the murder should be committed.”

Bisbikis also indicated several times that “it would be necessary for these people to die,” Skrzynski said, referring to Hutchinson and his wife.

Though Thomas argued his client was not a flight risk and would turn over his passport, Judge Friedman Appel said she was concerned about the safety of the community.

“The court is concerned a tether is insufficie­nt,” she said.

Oak Park’s police’s investigat­ion and search for a motive in Hutchinson’s slaying has taken months. Darnell Larry, who has a murder conviction on his record, wasn’t charged until late August, and Raptoplous was arraigned Sept. 2.

Oak Park Public Safety Director Steve Cooper last month told the Tribune that finding a motive in the fatal shooting was key because nothing was taken and it wasn’t a robbery.

Oak Park Lt. Marlon Benson last month said police would not comment further on the case until after the suspects have a preliminar­y examinatio­n in Oak Park District Court.

The accused shooter, Roy Larry, is suspected of riding up to Hutchinson’s GMC Denali about 1 p.m. on an electric bike, saying nothing before he fired multiple shots through the vehicle’s driver side window.

Larry was arrested within several minutes of the shooting after he was located in a nearby apartment complex area between James and Miller streets, police said.

The suspect told police he was in the area because he was looking to visit a friend there, police said.

Oak Park police said they did not recover the gun used in the shooting.

 ?? OAKLAND COUNTY JAIL PHOTOS ?? Suspects Angelo Raptoplous, top left, Darnell Larry, and Roy Larry, bottom
OAKLAND COUNTY JAIL PHOTOS Suspects Angelo Raptoplous, top left, Darnell Larry, and Roy Larry, bottom
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Hutchinson
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Bisbikis

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