Muhamnmad Altantawi, Oakland County (Michigan) inmate 434182, Michigan inmate 724497, born 2001, incarceration (with DOC) intake September 2022 at age 21, scheduled for earliest possible release August 2052, with full discharge of sentence August 2077
The inmate was nitially charged with the murder of his mother, arrested as an under 18, and later transferred to adult jail. Transferred to adult Jail in July 2020, and at trial, he was convicted in March 2022.
Sentenced to 35-60 years in prison. The roughly five years he’s already spent in jail will count toward his sentence.
Nada Huranieh, Al-Tantawi’s mother, was 35 when she died in August 2017. Al-Tantawi was 16 at the time.
A jury found him guilty of premeditated murder in March of 2022. Al-Tantawi pleaded not guilty during trail and has continued to claim he did not kill his mother.
“To say that this was a horrible situation is an understatement,” the Judge said. “When the death of one’s mother, as the jury found, is perpetrated by her son, it’s even more heinous.”
The jury took just two hours to deliberate, accepting the prosecution’s argument that Al-Tantawi smothered his mother with a toxin-soaked cloth and then pushing her already-dead body from a second story window of their home in Farmington Hills.
Having waived his right to an attorney at a hearing in August, Al-Tantawi represented himself Sept. 21. The sentencing took roughly four hours, with most of the event featuring Al-Tantawi’s lengthy list of challenges and disagreements with the prosecution’s case.
Al-Tantawi, who appealed his sentence minutes after it was read, objected to the relevance of information gathered at the time of the murder when he was still a teen. He also claimed he’s been discriminated against because he’s Muslim and the son of Syrian immigrants.
Previously, Al-Tantawi’s lawyer at the time appealed that information-gathering process to the Michigan Supreme Court, but the information police gathered during the initial investigation was deemed admissible in court.
Having spent five years in jail, Al-Tantawi argued his more recent past, spending 5 years in jail, should play a bigger role in the judge’s decision.
“There is no way this is more relevant than the last five years I’ve had,” he said.
The judge denied most of Al-Tantawi’s challenges, which included him asking to remove information from police reports and his own descriptions of what happened in 2017. The judge said she’d never sat through a four hour sentencing before this one.
“I sat through a trial,” the Judge said. “I’ve sat through five years of this case. I am more intimately familiar with the facts of this case than anyone other than the prosecution and yourself.”
One of the convicted’s two younger sisters, read a victim impact statement from her mother’s family back in Syria, where Huranieh and her husband, who she had been in the process of divorcing at the time of her death, are from.
Al-Tantawi’s father also read part of a statement before the Judge stopped him. The Judge said the statement wasn’t an actual victim impact statement, but a defense of his son.
Huranieh and her husband had been living apart for over a year at the time of her death. Her husband, Bassel Al-Tantawi, had pleaded no contest to a domestic violence charge regarding his wife and was wearing a GPS tether when she died.
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