Overview
- Nico Trevon Nettles entered a no-contest plea to second-degree murder in Macomb County Circuit Court, with sentencing set for June 4.
- Prosecutors say he stabbed 28-year-old Rashid Aliakbar in the chest during an altercation at an Eastpointe home in May 2025.
- Police reported that first responders tried to save Aliakbar and took him to Ascension St. John Hospital in Detroit, where he died.
- Under Michigan law, second-degree murder can carry any term of years up to life in prison at the court’s discretion.
- Macomb County Prosecutor Peter J. Lucido called the plea a step toward resolution and emphasized the loss felt by both families.