ROSEVILLE, Mich. – A woman is in police custody after her 31-year-old boyfriend was found fatally stabbed Saturday morning in Roseville, police said.
Officers were dispatched about 3 a.m. to the home in the 18000 block of Birmingham Street.
The victim is a resident of Eastpointe. Police said indications are that the victim and the suspect were in a relationship.
The 27-year-old Roseville woman is being held at the police station.
Family and friends of Shane Bigger are searching for words to express their pain.
"For something like this to happen to somebody like that it's just -- there's, like, no words for it," family friend Vernecia Singletary said.
"My heart sank to my stomach," family friend Samantha Grillo said. "I didn't believe it."
What disturbed them most is police arrested Bigger's girlfriend for stabbing him multiple times, reasons still unknown.
"He loved her and loved her daughter. He was going to raise her as his own. I don't understand why. Why him?" Grillo asked.
Family and close friends admit Bigger and his girlfriend had a rocky relationship. They insist the girlfriend was the aggressor, yet Bigger stuck around.
When neighbors stepped outside, they saw police arresting the woman who lives there.
"I'm just waiting to hear what happened and what went on," neighbor Jenny Whitte said.
"Everything is pretty much unanswered," neighbor Fred Dhurst said. "Very strange. It's a quiet neighborhood."
"I saw her handcuffed and put in the car," neighbor Richard Noce said. "I was like, 'Wow, she's such a nice lady.' I don't know how this could happen."
Investigators are trying to answer that exact question. The preliminary investigation reveals the woman, who neighbors saw in the police squad, used some type of sharp object and stabbed her boyfriend multiple times, killing him.
A Michigan State Police forensic team marked evidence on the front lawn and inside the house.
"I would assume something happened in and out. They did take a vehicle away this morning," Whitte said.
Police don't know what prompted the stabbing. What is clear is a 31-year-old man is dead and a neighborhood remains in disbelief.
"I thought that there was a child that lived in that house, and that makes me wonder also," Whitte said.
The investigation is ongoing.
Roseville Police arrest girlfriend after she's accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death. Was anyone else inside? @clickondetroit @6pm pic.twitter.com/7vGIKc6dlt
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