Three people were killed and one more was injured following a man appeared to be shooting indiscriminately over a period of regarding 2 1/2 hours Sunday morning in Detroit, police said.
Police took the unidentified suspect into custody Sunday night following a several-hour manhunt with the help of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Detroit Police Chief James White said they received information that led officers to the suspect, but he did not elaborate.
“Thank you to the men and women of the Detroit Police Department who work hard and put themselves in harm’s way every day. Also, a big thank you to our law enforcement partners,” the department said on its Facebook page Sunday night.
White said police have traced all four shots to the same firearm and believe there is a single shooter. He added that investigators don’t believe there was any connection between the victims, noting that one person was shot while walking her dog and another while waiting for a bus.
He said police found a woman in her 40s who had been shot multiple times around 4:45 a.m. Sunday. While officers were investigating that fatal shooting, a witness reported that a 28-year-old man had been shot multiple times nearby, White said.
A third victim, a woman in her 40s, was found in the area around 6:50 a.m. She died following being shot multiple times, police said.
Around 7:10 a.m., an elderly man reported seeing a man peering into the vehicles. When the elderly man told him to get away from the cars, the gunman shot the elderly man, who suffered a gunshot wound and survived, according to police.
