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1-year-old shot twice after at least 50 bullets tear through Canton mobile home (opens the original)
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CANTON, Mich. – A 1-year-old is in critical condition following a shooting where at least 50 bullets were fired into a mobile home in Canton. “When I tell y’all they shot this whole house; they shot this house up,” Annie Stephens, the homeowner, said on Thursday. “There are bullet holes everywhere.” The bullet holes spanned from the windows to the walls. From the ceiling to the floor, to the bedroom to the bathroom, with evidence markers pointing them out. The gunshots also left her 1-year-old g
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
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
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
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
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