ICE Lodges Detainer for 20-Year-Old Haitian Charged in Michigan Plant Stabbing

1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 8

ICE asked Michigan authorities not to release Valmir Djempsley, 20, after charging him with murdering coworker Brandon Eduardo Velasquez Chavez, 21, at a Coldwater food processing plant.
June 30 court records say the two men argued over Djempsley’s knife, and Djempsley allegedly chased Chavez before stabbing him in the back; Chavez died at the scene.
Djempsley, a Haitian citizen, pleaded not guilty, was denied bond and remains held in the Branch County jail on the murder charge.
DHS said Djempsley entered the U.S. illegally through Texas in 2024 and was later released, though local prosecutors said he was on a work visa at the time of the killing.