Background: News footage of the Hamtramck, Mich., neighborhood where Brianna Frame was killed (WDIV). Inset (left): Brianna Frame (Jurkiewicz Wilk Funeral Home). Inset (right): Baby Kameron (GoFundMe).
A Michigan family is grieving after a 10-month-old baby girl was left an orphan by her own father, who murdered the baby”s mother and then shot himself in a murder-suicide.
WDIV, a local NBC affiliate, spoke to the family of 24-year-old Brianna Frame, who was shot by her ex-boyfriend. The shooter has not been named publicly. The Hamtramck Police Department said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that on Aug. 29, officers responded to a home following a shooting and found two people dead of gunshot wounds.
“No suspects are at large and there is no threat to the public,” the police noted in the post.
Days later, Brianna Frame’s family came forward and spoke to the media, sharing the horrific detail that their family member had been killed in front of her 10-month-old daughter, Kameron.
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While speaking to WDIV, Brianna Frame’s brother, Donald Frame, told the outlet that he was in the home with his sister, her 10-month-old daughter Kameron, and his and Brianna’s parents. In the moments before the shooting, Donald Frame heard his sister “screaming” before he saw her ex-boyfriend “shoot her in the face.” After witnessing his sister’s murder, he went to get his father and told him, “Brianna’s been shot.”
WDIV reported that Brianna Frame’s ex then turned the gun on himself and took his own life, an account that echoed what was stated on a GoFundMe page started by Brianna Frame’s cousin, Alicia Lepkowski. The entire incident took place in the presence of 10-month-old Kameron.
Lepkowski told WDIV that the baby’s father was “selfish” for leaving his baby daughter without parents. In her message on GoFundMe and in her interview with WDIV, she said that people needed to take domestic violence situations more seriously. She told WDIV, “People tell you to walk away, and you walk away, and you still have to worry.”
Police did not go into further detail about the incident but said an investigation was ongoing.
