Desmond Burks is accused of killing a well-known Detroit neurosurgeon whose body was found wrapped in a carpet in his attic. On April 22, 2023, Detroit police officers received a parking complaint. Officers found a white Range Rover blocking a driveway. When they investigated the SUV, they saw blood on the inside. The SUV was towed and Detroit police learned that the registered owner was Dr. Devon Hoover, 53, of Detroit. Hoover lived about five miles away from where the SUV was found. Detroit police received a 911 call from Hoover’s family member in Indiana. That person requested a welfare check at Hoover’s home because Hoover had failed to show up to see his dying mother in Indiana. Police noticed blood on the side of the back door and forced their way inside where Hoover’s body was found in the third-floor attic crawl space wrapped in a blood-soaked carpet and appeared to have been shot twice in the head. After Hoover's death, fraudulent transactions showed up on his bank accounts and continued for several days. Cellphone records showed Hoover had exchanged about 4,000 text messages with a phone number attributed to Burks who lived right next to where police found the SUV. The text messages established that Desmond Burks and Dr. Hoover were in an intimate relationship with one another, and that, on occasion, Desmond Burks would charge Dr. Hoover for these sexual services. Investigators found an image of Burks parking the SUV and he also left a fingerprint in the SUV. He was seen limping away and carrying a backpack. Burks was known to be walking with a limp at that time because he had been shot in the hip. In Burks' home and another linked to Burks they found one of Hoover’s Cartier watches and another $7,500 watch that Hoover had purchased the day before his death.