KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — Donnovan Lewis is in the Kalamazoo County Jail awaiting his day in court.
He is charged with the murder of his 24-year-old girlfriend Aniya Mack, who police say he killed on June 24 and then led authorities to her body nearly four days later.
On June 29, a Kalamazoo detective told District Court Judge Richard Santori that a man approached police the day before as they drove near where Mack lived in the 4000 block of West Michigan Avenue.
The detective said they were investigating the disappearance of Mack, whose family had not seen her since June 24.
“While conducting the investigation, Mack’s boyfriend — Donnovan Terrell Lewis — approached uniformed officers and stated that he had killed his girlfriend on Sunday night," the unidentified detective said on a video recording of the hearing obtained by 24 Hour News 8.
Police say he told them it happened at her apartment after they were arguing.
“He struck her in the face during an argument and knocked her unconscious, he then went into the kitchen, got a large knife, returned to the bedroom and slit her throat," the detective said.
The detective said he also admitted to stabbing her in the throat before she died.
“He then put a garbage bag over her head and put her into a suitcase," she said.
He said he then put her into a dumpster in the apartment complex where he left the body until just before dawn, when he removed the body from the dumpster and placed it in a van belonging to his mother, police say.
“He said that he then drove her out of town aand eventually threw the suitcase containing Mack into Comstock Creek off of East Main Street," the detective told the judge.
He allegedly walked the buoyant suitcase downstream before submerging the suitcase and covering it with mud, according to the detective.
He would lead police to the body on June 28, where it had been for nearly four days.