The surveillance video captured the attack in stark detail—every one of the more than a dozen stab wounds—and when the footage finished playing in court, the emotional toll became impossible to ignore. One of **Jennifer Harris’s** daughters abruptly left the courtroom, walked outside to a vehicle, retrieved two knives, and attempted to bring them back into the courthouse before security intervened. It was a raw outpouring of grief from a family witnessing the final moments of a woman they had loved, depended on, and cherished.
Harris, **39 years old**, was a mother of six and a long-time manager of the McDonald’s on **9 Mile Road in Eastpointe**, where she had worked for over a decade. Colleagues described her as steady, reliable, and deeply involved in the daily rhythms of the restaurant. But on **July 10**, that routine was shattered when an earlier workplace argument resulted in Harris sending **Afeni Badu Muhammad**, a 26-year-old employee, home for the day.
According to investigators, Muhammad did not simply leave the situation behind. Instead, she returned later wearing a mask, entered the restaurant through the back door typically reserved for staff, and launched a knife attack that resulted in Harris sustaining at least thirteen stab wounds, with some accounts indicating the number may have been even higher.
The brutality and suddenness of the assault shocked both coworkers and the wider community.As the case unfolds in court, the surveillance footage has become a central and emotionally charged piece of evidence. For Harris’s family, it is a painful reminder of an irreplaceable loss; for the community, it underscores the devastating consequences of a conflict that should never have escalated into lethal violence.
