Court document says Waterford’s murder is linked to a drug deal; named victim – The Oakland Press

The man recently murdered in Waterford Township — found fatally shot outside the MJR theater complex on M-59 — was a 28-year-old White Lake Township resident identified in court documents as Antonn Cecil Richard Thomas.

According to the filed complaint, the murder allegedly involved a drug deal that occurred “in the course of committing or attempting to commit delivery and/or conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance.”

Waterford Police Chief Scott Underwood has declined to release the victim’s name, telling The Oakland Press in an email last week that it is “not that unusual” to do this and that it is done “quite often” – but did not indicate why this was the case.

The accused killers, 24-year-old Mike Vladislav Kruglik of West Bloomfield and 26-year-old Jesse Del Jordan Bradshaw of New Boston, are charged with first-degree murder. Felony murder is when someone is killed while committing a crime.

Denied bond at their Nov. 12 arraignment before 51st District Judge Richard Kuhn, Kruglik and Bradshaw are being held in the Oakland County Jail. They will return to court on Wednesday for a probable cause conference.

Thomas was found shot outside the MJR Waterford Cinema on November 7. As previously reported, a Waterford Police Department press release stated that a 911 call came in about a man “who had suffered an apparent gunshot wound” around 11:30 p.m. ” in the parking lot of the theater at 7501 Highland Road. He was shot in the upper chest, treated at the scene by Waterford Regional Fire Department personnel and then transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Kruglik was arrested Nov. 8 after police executed a search warrant in West Bloomfield Township. Bradshaw was arrested later that day in New Boston, where the vehicle believed to have been used in the killing was located, police said.