Sterling man sentenced for 2020 barber shop murder

BY ERIC CZARNIK eczarnik@candgnews.com

A Sterling Heights man was sentenced June 7 for committing murder as well as a felony firearm crime at a Sterling Heights barber shop in 2020, according to the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office.

In Macomb County Circuit Court, Judge Edward Servitto sentenced David Kanouna, 33, to 22 1/2 to 50 years of imprisonment for second-degree murder, as well as a two-year sentence for felony firearm, the Prosecutor’s Office said. Those sentences are consecutive.

Earlier this year, Kanouna pleaded guilty to those crimes. Second-degree murder can carry a penalty up to life imprisonment, while the other crime carries a mandatory two years, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.

According to prosecutors, Kanouna fatally shot Sharaz Hussain June 13, 2020, at The Barber Co., located along Mound Road, near Fox Hill Drive. Records from the MiCOURT database reveal that

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