Man and his mother to be formally charged with murder of 12 year old

DETROIT (WXYZ) - A 35-year-old woman and her 19 -year-old son are expected to be formally charged Sunday in connection with the shooting death of a 12- year-old Detroit girl.

The pair will be arraigned at 36 ^th District Court.

Joshua Brown faces a list of charges and could be charged with first degree murder.

Heather Brown may be charged with accessory after the fact.

12 year old Kade’jah Davis was killed around 9:00 p.m. Tuesday inside her home in the 19000 block of Ferguson.

Hours after the shooting, the mother and son were arrested.

Police say five bullets sprayed the front door of Kade’jah’s home. Three of those bullets killed her.

Kade’jah mother Amanda Tallon said she had just returned home from checking on her tax return when a woman from the tax service showed up with a man.

According to Tallon, the two did not believe that she turned in a cell phone she had found in the bathroom of the tax service and thought she still had it.

Tallon said she closed the door thinking the argument was over, but someone started firing shots.

“I didn’t deserve this, my baby didn’t deserve this. If you were coming to shoot me, why didn’t you just shoot me?” asked Talton.

Two bullets hit the 12-year-old in the head and one struck her in the ribs. Kade'jah was a sixth grader at University YES Academy in Detroit with a 4.1 GPA.

 She just recently celebrated her birthday a week ago.

“She was a sweetheart, she was just my baby genius,”  Talton told Action News.