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Jay Scott Smith

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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Jay Scott Smith, Joel Deaner

    A Detroit Fire battalion chief is accused of attacking a man in road rage. Now he’s placed on leave. (opens the original)

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    LIVONIA, Mich. – A Livonia man said he was attacked in a road-rage incident by a Detroit Fire Department Battalion Chief. Todd Richards says he was just trying to get a haircut. “Before I knew it, I heard him, then I looked in my mirror, and he was already on me,” Richards, 64, said on Wednesday. Richards is talking about a road rage incident late last month, between him and 57-year-old Thomas Suchora, a battalion chief for the Detroit Fire Department. It happened around 12:15 p.m. on Aug. 25 af

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Jay Scott Smith, Joel Deaner

    Detroit Fire Battalion Chief charged after alleged road rage attack in Livonia (opens the original)

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    LIVONIA, Mich. – Todd Richards says he was just trying to get a haircut. “Before I knew it, I heard him, then I looked in my mirror, and he was already on me,” Richards, 64, said on Wednesday. Richards is talking about a road rage incident late last month, between him and 57-year-old Thomas Suchora, a battalion chief for the Detroit Fire Department. It happened around 12:15 p.m. on Aug. 25 after the two crossed paths at a railroad crossing near Levan and Plymouth in Livonia. Shortly after both c

  3. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Jay Scott Smith, Marty Herak

    7 shot, 3 killed in mass shooting at Detroit home (opens the original)

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    DETROIT – A fight at what police described as an afterhours strip club erupted into an unspeakable act of violence as seven people were shot on Sunday morning on the city’s west side. It happened just before 7:30am at the corner of Eaton and Prest streets when a 911 call came in. Initial reports said that four people were shot, before police made the grisly discovery when they arrived, finding three bodies in a vacant field next to the home. “Our responding officers found a scene where it was th

  4. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Jay Scott Smith, Jason Wilger

    Eastpointe police chase: Detroit man charged with fleeing police after alleged plant theft (opens the original)

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    EASTPOINTE, Mich. – A Detroit man accused of leading a police chase over stolen plants in Eastpointe early Friday morning is facing multiple felony charges. Jeremy Jamel Johnson was charged with second-degree fleeing and eluding police, breaking and entering without breaking with intent, obstructing or resisting a police officer, and assault with a dangerous weapon. “I understand his charges are serious, and they are allegations, and I’m not out there trying to hurt nobody,” Johnson, 37, said du

  5. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Jay Scott Smith, Jeff Jewell

    ‘I’ve served my time’: Detroit woman turns life around after prison, helps others rebuild through nonprofit (opens the original)

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    DETROIT – Delenia Howell has spent the last three years trying to rebuild a life that was nearly destroyed. “After incarceration, a lot of people don’t see us, they don’t hear us, they don’t know what our issues are,” Howell, 36, said. “They don’t care.” She’s a peer leader with Nation Outside – a nonprofit organization based in Southwest Detroit that focuses on helping the formerly incarcerated. Howell helps people like her who have served their time and are trying to start over. She was first

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