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The notorious hitman Vincent Smothers, from the Michigan Department of Corrections website

It was nearly midnight on the evening of September 17, 2007, and the notorious hitman, Vincent Smothers, along with his associate, Ernie Davis, were about apply their craft.

Inside the home on 19741 Runyon Street was Mike “Big Mike” Robinson, a drug dealer, and Smothers’ intended target.

Robinson wasn’t the only one in the home. Five other people were in the home, including a minor.

Smothers, according to his later retelling, approached a storm window, came face to face with another male, and started firing. Davis fired at a man in the window.

“The fact that Robinson had company made this an even better time to check to see if he kept his storm door locked, because he would be distracted by his friends and the game,” Smothers said.

As they turned the corner to the front of the house, Smothers said he spotted through a window a man’s silhouetted head and shoulders. “I told Nemo to point his .45 pistol at him in case anything went wrong,” Smothers said.

Davis trained his pistol at the silhouette, while Smothers said he crouched down and crept up the two concrete stairs and onto the small porch. The inner door and the storm door were closed. Smothers tested the storm door; it didn’t give.

The front door shows damaged caused by the barrage of bullets.

As he pulled on the storm door again, Smothers said the inner door swung open, and he was face-to-face with an unknown man.

“He looked down and saw me,” Smothers said. “I could immediately see that he was unarmed. He must have seen the AK-47 in my hand, because he immediately twisted to his right, away from the rest of the living room.

“As he moved aside, I could see Robinson, the target, sitting on a large stuffed armchair, just behind the man at the front door. I could also see that there was a gun sitting on a cocktail table next to Robinson.”

Smothers said he opened fire through the storm door at both men with his AK-47.

“At the same time I began to fire, Nemo shot at the male silhouette in the window,” he said.

Robinson leaned forward and reached for the .40 caliber pistol on the table, but the hit man shot him nine times, and he was killed before he could grab his gun, according to Smothers. The man in the doorway, Dixon, was able to run about 10 feet before collapsing near his girlfriend, Chapman. McNoriell, whose silhouette Davis allegedly fired at through the window, squirmed on the couch, blood gushing from a neck wound.

Glover told police she was sitting with her arms folded when the shooting started, and was hit by bullets in the elbow and thigh. She said she crawled toward a back bedroom, where Robinson’s son, Michael, was lying. As she dragged herself through the living room, she took three more bullets in her back.

By the time the bloodbath was over, five people were dead, including the minor.

A few hours later, a fourteen-year-old, Davontae Sanford. approached the crime scene and made the mistake of suggesting he knew something about this bloodbath.

Sanford was interrogated later; the interrogators told him that if he signed the confession he would go home.

He didn’t go home. He spent the next nine years in prison.

The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office led by Kym Worthy kept him in prison, even though Smothers confessed to the murder soon after.

Bill Proctor currently runs Bill Proctor and Associates, but he spent forty years in the Detroit area news business.

He told me that he covered a lot of this story, and he said that Worthy’s office had to be dragged to release Sanford, which she did after he served nine years.

Proctor said he remembers her holding a press conference on the day of Sanford’s release still trying to justify the prosecution of this teenager.

Smothers, by the time Sanford was released, had long confessed to the Runyan Street murders, but Proctor told me that Worthy worked out a sweetheart deal where he would plead guilty to eight murders, none of which included Runyan street and be eligible for parole.

Yes, he’d be nearly eighty before he was eligible, but given that he’s responsible for more than ten murders this deal is outrageous.

This is not the only murder that Smothers- who did not respond to emails through JPay for comment- has confessed to which another is sentenced for. In the documentary below, he confesses to the murder of Jamal Seagers, another drug dealer.

If Runyan street is Smothers most notorious work, his next most notorious murder was Rose Cobb.

Proctor told me that Smothers refused to murder women, in fact, his forte was murdering drug dealers, which he likely justified by their chosen profession.

Why did he make an exception? It may have something to do with the person who asked for the hit: Detroit Police Detective David Cobb, Rose’s husband.

Part of an affidavit submitted by Smothers in 2024, acknowledging murdering Cobb

For the purposes of this story, it’s not important to consider if Smothers is a cold blooded and psychopathic murderer; he is, and he’s not denying it.

What’s important is if he’s truthful.