(WWJ) – A man convicted of killing three people, including a 6-year-old boy execution style, will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Nicholas Bahri, who was found guilty of killing 6-year-old Tai’raz Moore, Isis Rimson and the boy’s father, Tukoyo Moore, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Wednesday.
Detroit firefighters found Tukoyo Moore’s body in a burned out car in Detroit on Oct. 1, 2020. When police went to notify his family, they found the boy and Rimson – who was the father’s girlfriend – killed execution style in the basement of their home on Otis Street in Warren.
Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer, at the time of the murders, said the motive was drugs and money.
Bahri was convicted back in April. At Wednesday’s sentencing hearing, he became defiant and insisted he had been framed, according to a report from Fox 2 in Detroit.
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Fox 2 reports Bahri asked the judge to remove his attorney from the courtroom and said he wanted to represent himself during sentencing.
When Bahri took the podium for allocution – the direct address between the judge and the defendant prior to sentencing – he turned it directly towards the victims’ family members, according to the report.
He then told his attorney he was no longer need, before proceeding to accuse police and prosecutors of “hiding the truth” about Moore’s death on Sept. 30, 2020.
"I am innocent and I can explain the whole case from front to back," Bahri said, according to Fox 2. "The jury got bamboozled. The family deserves to know."
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The judge in the case, Ed Servitto, Jr., interrupted Bahri as he began to try and explain what was seen on surveillance video in his driveway.
Servitto said they were not going to re-try the case and wouldn’t allow him to present evidence, which he had the chance to do during the trial.
Authorities said at the time of Bahri’s arraignment in 2020 that he has a lengthy criminal record, with convictions in Wayne and Oakland counties for drug possession, breaking and entering, and fleeing a police officer. Dwyer said Bahri got out of prison about a year prior to the incident.
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