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Teen charged in killing of Oakland County deputy pleads guilty to first-degree murder

Deputy Bradley Reckling was shot, killed in June 2024

Oakland County Sheriff Bradley Reckling and his family. (Detroit Police Department)

OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. – One of the teens charged in connection with the killing of Oakland County Deputy Bradley Reckling has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.

Raymone Debose, of Clinton Township, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder of a police officer and felony firearm on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office.

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As part of the plea agreement, Debose will be sentenced to 33 to 60 years in prison, plus two years for the felony firearm charge.

He is scheduled to be sentenced at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025.

Oakland County Deputy Bradley Reckling was shot and killed in the line of duty after working with an auto theft unit in tracking a stolen car in Detroit on June 22, 2024.

While following the vehicle, which had been stolen from the Red Oaks Waterpark, Reckling was shot at multiple times.

Debose, Marquis Goins, of Detroit and Karim Moore, of Clinton Township, were arrested and charged in connection with Reckling’s killing.

Debose was the only one of the three teens charged with murder.

Moore was sentenced in May after he pleaded guilty to the charges of conducting a criminal enterprise, receiving and concealing a stolen motor vehicle and felony firearm.

Goins is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday, July 30, 2025.

Background on case --> 3 teens charged in killing of Oakland County deputy


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