DeAndre Booker has been charged with premeditated murder and tampering with evidenceAshley Elkins, 30, was last seen at her Warren, Mich., home on Jan. 2 Her ex-boyfriend DeAndre Booker was initially arrested on a charge of lying to police Michigan authorities have now charged Booker with offenses including murder and evidence tampering A man who allegedly lied to police during their investigation of his missing ex-girlfriend Ashley Elkins has now been charged with murder.

The disappearance of Ashley Elkins is now a murder case. On Friday, a Macomb County judge charged her ex-boyfriend, De'Andre Booker, with murder.

De'Andre Booker, Ashley Elkins' ex-boyfriend, will be arraigned on a first-degree murder charge in connection with her disappearance.

Maurice Morton, Ashley Elkins’ uncle and family spokesman, said after he and about 15 other family members attended Booker’s arraignment that it was a “very tough day” and

Nearly one month since Ashley Elkins, a Warren woman, was last seen, her ex-boyfriend is now being charged in her murder. Thirty-two-year-old Deandre Booker, who family has long suspected as the prime suspect,

Officials provided some major updates Thursday in the case of Ashley Elkins, including the search for DNA and their charging plans.

Developments are expected in the case of Ashley Elkins, who is the missing woman from Warren; and the case against Jennifer Crumbley, charged in the Oxford school shooting incident. In national news,