A Westland man is accused of shooting and killing his 79-year-old grandmother and then setting their home on fire.
Donavan Shane Laverty, 33, is charged with one count of premeditated first-degree murder, one count of second-degree arson, one count of discharge of a firearm in a building and two counts of felony firearm.
On the morning of Nov. 11, Wayne County prosecutors allege Laverty fired a handgun several times at a home in the 33800 block of Calumet Court in Westland, striking his grandmother, Sandra Stanton, in the head…