A 28-year-old Detroit man will stand trial on five felony charges, including felonious assault and felony firearm counts, after a judge heard testimony that he pointed a gun at two teenage girls inside a home on Greenfield and threatened to kill them. David Glenn Williams Jr. remains out on bond and under house arrest with a GPS tether while the case moves toward Wayne County Circuit Court.
According to testimony reported by ClickOnDetroit, the two girls met Williams at Eastern Market, where he worked, and later connected with him online before going to a home on Greenfield with him in July 2026. The group stopped along the way for marijuana, food and alcohol, and once inside the home, the girls played a drinking game in a studio room. One 17-year-old girl testified that Williams pointed a gun at her and her friend and said he was going to kill them.
Detroit police reported that Williams held both girls at gunpoint and sexually assaulted one of them. Per testimony described by the outlet, Williams closed and locked the door, then locked himself and one of the girls in a back room. When the other girl tried to run toward the door, Williams pulled her back, according to the testimony.
One Girl Escaped, Called for Help
One of the girls eventually ran out of the home and later encountered her mother and police outside. Earlier, while a bathroom argument unfolded inside the home, that same girl used an AirPod to answer a call from her mother, and she maintained that no gun was present during that particular exchange, per her testimony.
Defense attorney James King questioned the girl's drinking and her decision to remain in the home, asking how much alcohol she had consumed that night. The girl testified that she had drunk a lot of alcohol. King's line of questioning became part of the preliminary hearing record as the defense sought to challenge the girls' account.
Judge Drops One Count, Advances Five Others
36th District Court Judge Ronald Giles declined to bind over Williams on count five, a false imprisonment charge tied to one of the girls, stating that she was stopped only when she decided to leave. Giles bound the case over for trial on the remaining five charges, which include felonious assault, felony firearm and false imprisonment counts. He also allowed Williams to continue working inside Eastern Market while the case proceeds.
Judge Giles has served on the Detroit bench since 2006 and holds undergraduate, master's and law degrees from Wayne State University, according to 36th District Court records. He previously made local judicial history in 2008 by remanding a sitting Detroit mayor to jail for bond violations. His evidentiary approach in this case follows scrutiny from Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, who in October 2025 directed her office to review Giles' docket after several dismissals, including an attempted murder charge dropped for insufficient evidence, as reported in a Detroit News investigation relayed by Sam Riddle.
What Williams Is Facing at Trial
Williams is scheduled to be arraigned in Wayne County Circuit Court on September 9. Under Wayne County criminal procedure, felony cases like his originate in Detroit's 36th District Court before being bound over to the 3rd Circuit Court at Frank Murphy Hall of Justice for trial, according to Wayne County procedures.
The statutory exposure tied to the charges is significant. Under Michigan Compiled Laws 750.82, felonious assault with a dangerous weapon is a felony punishable by up to four years in prison and a $2,000 fine, per Prain Law, PLLC. Michigan's unlawful imprisonment statute, MCL 750.349b, carries up to 15 years in prison and a $20,000 fine when restraint is achieved by means of a weapon, according to Eaton County's legal definitions.
Perhaps most significant is Michigan's felony firearm statute, MCL 750.227b, which mandates a flat two-year prison sentence for possessing a firearm during the commission of a felony. That term must be served consecutively before any sentence for the underlying felony begins, and judges cannot grant probation or concurrent sentencing for it, according to the Neumann Law Group.
Case Unfolds Amid Falling Citywide Crime Numbers
The allegations against Williams surface as Detroit has reported broad declines in violent crime. Detroit Police Department statistics released in January 2026 showed a 10.2% drop in overall violent crime across the city in 2025, with nonfatal shootings falling 26% to 447 and sexual assaults dropping 14% to 529, according to the City of Detroit. The city also recorded fewer than 200 homicides in 2025 for the first time since 1965.
Regional task forces have also ramped up enforcement. The FBI Detroit Field Office reported 841 federal and local task force arrests across Michigan in 2025, a 120% jump from the prior year, with 75% of those arrests targeting violent crime and gang-related offenses, per the agency's year-end operational summary.
Eastern Market, where the girls first met Williams, is a high-foot-traffic commercial and agricultural hub in central Detroit. The district is also home to Keep Growing Detroit's 1.38-acre central farm, which supplies seeds and resources to more than 1,500 urban farms and community gardens across the city, as Hoodline reported. The Greenfield Road corridor where the alleged assault occurred has separately drawn city scrutiny; in April 2026, Detroit initiated legal seizure proceedings against a vacant apartment building there over recurring code violations tied to the same west-side thoroughfare.
The charges against Williams remain allegations that have not been proven in court. His case now heads to Wayne County Circuit Court, where a jury will ultimately weigh the testimony from the preliminary hearing against the defense's challenges to the girls' account.
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