ROSEVILLE, Mich. – A Roseville woman is in jail Sunday after police said she stabbed her boyfriend to death.
Police found 31-year-old Shane Bigger, of Eastpointe, stabbed to death inside his girlfriend's house on 12 Mile Road near Birmingham Street.
The 27-year-old Roseville woman is being held at the police station.
Close friends admit Bigger and his girlfriend had a rocky relationship and insist that the girlfriend was the aggressor. But Bigger decided to stick around.
"He loved her," said family friend Samantha Grillo. "He loved her daughter. He was going to raise her as his own. I just don't understand. Why him?"
Police don't know what prompted the stabbing, but the investigation is ongoing.
"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," Grillo said. "I didn't believe it."
Police said Bigger was found with multiple stab wounds.
Friends and family are holding a vigil at 8 p.m. Sunday outside the home where Bigger was found.
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. "I thought that there was a child that lived in that house, and that makes me wonder also."
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