Overview
- Desmond Burks is scheduled to be sentenced at 9 a.m. Friday in Wayne County for the 2023 killing.
- Burks pleaded guilty last month to second-degree murder, larceny of $20,000 or more, using a computer to commit a crime, felon in possession of a firearm, and felony firearm, and prosecutors dropped a first-degree murder count.
- He faces 35 to 60 years for second-degree murder plus a consecutive five-year term for the firearm offense.
- Prosecutors say the probe spanned five states and three countries and produced surveillance from 24 locations, more than 130 search warrants, over 300 evidence items, and terabytes of digital data.
- Burks also entered a guilty plea to manslaughter in an unrelated road-rage death that occurred a year after Hoover’s murder.