Detroit Man Attempts to Turn Himself in for Double Homicide… Police Too Busy to Arrest Him
- Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:18am by
Jason Howerton
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A Detroit man suspected of fatally shooting two men attempted to turn himself in on Saturday but, to his surprise, there were apparently no police officers available to take him into custody.
The shooting occurred at around 1:30 a.m. Saturday in Detroit, a city grappling with high crime rates. Witnesses said several people were attending a “social event” when the suspect, identified only as a 36-year-old male, lost his temper in an altercation, pulled out a gun and started shooting, WDIV reports. After the smoke cleared, two men were dead and two others wounded. The shooter fled the scene in his car.
About two hours after the shooting, Detroit police say the suspect arrived at a Detroit Fire Engine Station and said he was involved in the deadly shooting that night, seemingly turning himself in. The fire station called the police, expecting them to rush to the station to pick up the murder suspect. Instead, the police told them that area patrol units were too busy “handling high priority runs” and therefore “no units were dispatched to the location,” according to the report.
This allowed the suspect to actually leave the fire station on his own free will. Fortunately, the suspected shooter went directly to the 10th Police Precinct where he was finally taken into custody.
Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee announced late Saturday that the department would be launching an administrative investigation to figure out why the appropriate resources were not made available.
“Every effort to ensure that this person was taken into custody should have occurred,” Godbee said in a statement. “Therefore an administrative investigation will be conducted to determine if this police run was handled appropriately and to ascertain if there were any other patrol resources which should have been made available to respond to the Detroit Fire Engine Quarters.”
The two men who died in the shooting were identified only as a 23-year-old and a 37-year-old. Two other men, 19 and 34, were listed in serious condition Saturday, according to police.
After learning about the bizarre incident, Detroit Fire Department Senior Chief Lewis Roelans said, “Isn’t it ironic? You call for the police and even we can’t get them.”
Front page image courtesy of mlive.com.
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Comments (89)
EqualJustice
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:30amThey’re UNION employees. It’s a Saturday in the middle of a PAID HOLIDAY weekend. HAHAHA There‘s your answer and I’m not surprised at all.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:31pmExactly right. This is a union thing.
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:16pmIt’s a union thing alright, and one of the starkest examples I’ve yet to see.
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:24pmThe union might file a grievance against the suspect for doing someone else’s job.
Report Post »kowdung
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:47pmNo it is NOT a union thing! I live five blocks from the Detroit border, at Woodward and 8 Mile. It is the urban mentality. So many people and they are all too busy to do their job. Too busy doing what, you may ask. To busy playing the pity card, sitting on their bums, shooting each other. It’s a hell hole.
Our Governor offered the people of Detroit a deal. Let the state take over Belle Isle with a rental agreement of 99 years. After that, Detroit can have it back. Right now Belle Isle, once a place of beauty and fun, is full of hookers, drug dealers, trash and thugs. You would think the city of Detroit would jump at this, they have no money, they still keep Belle Isle, it’s a win win situation. NOPE! All the council ranted about is how whitey is out to take away one of “Detroit’s Jewels.” The Belle Isle deal is only one of many the Detroit council has turned down. All they want is for the state to give them more money and they want to handle their own problems. They have already shown the rest of Michigan they can’t handle anything.
Detroit and it’s people are hopeless. There is soooooo much racism (blacks hate whites) that they can’t see beyond their own hatefulness. I love Michigan, but Detroit is really and truly a hell hole.
Report Post »jcldwl
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:28pmCome on Detroit is a fine upstanding example of how socialism works. This is where Obama wants to take our entire nation. PREPARE.
Report Post »getitgotitgood
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:54pmSorry but you are an idiot. You think this is funny, you haven’t seen nothing yet. This is a laughing matter. Things are going to get to the point right here in America, that blood is going to be running in the gutters and people piling up in the streets. Laugh now and think the unions are the only problem… lol they are definitely a big problem but… evil run by Satan is in charge ….. grab your ass and hold on.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:24amEvery city controlled by progressives suffers the same fate,they die.Detroit was destroyed by Coleman Young,he was mayor for thirty or forty years and his corrupt regime does what every corrupt regime does,they rape and pillage the town until there’s nothing left.Kwame Kilpatrick was another criminal mayor who recently got out of prison for his stellar performance as mayor.Bulldozing the entire city won’t help,it’s the criminals who rule the people that have destroyed it and changing the people is the only answer.
Report Post »SilentRunner
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:09amThey should build a double row of 12-foot fences with razor wire around Detroit and not allow anyone in or out. Eventually most of Wayne County will be razed and replaced by trees.
Report Post »freeberty
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:49pmHere is how it was described to me by a relative that works the area.
Above 696 – still ok
696 s to 8 mile – ghetto
Below 8 mile – night of the living dead, they will kill you and eat you
He lives close to Shelby and they only go to the games in the city if the company’s armored SUV is available.
Report Post »Disgusted_in_CT
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:47amWhere is Axel Foley when you need him?
Report Post »proliance
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:04amBeverly Hills.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:08amIn Hollyweird causing trouble, as usual…LOL.
Report Post »Bellini
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:15pmThat was funny :)
Report Post »jcldwl
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:26pmHe left and went to L.A. Not much better.
Report Post »jeepkid99
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:21pmmust not have been enough fist bumping in the motor city
Report Post »Hugh Akston II
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:46amSounds about right. My wife was car jacked in Detroit and the thief wrecked my car. The police had my car in the impound for a month and would not let the insurance adjuster inspect it because it was “under investigation”. When I finally could get in my car I found the license of the person that stole it on the floor. Funny the police never found it. I tuned it in to them and nothing happened. Detroit is a carcase of a city.
Report Post »deadend
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:36amHay let‘s face it the guys were already dead so I don’t see the rush to arest the guy.
Report Post »Cataclysm
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:10amFunny, every time i hear how Detroit is going down the tubes, I keep remembering how Detroit is protrayed in Robocop. They were not far off other than the whole cyborg thing.
Report Post »hayesstephen
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 10:54amcataclyism wait a few more years, then it will be WORSE THAN THE MOVIE. NoBama2013 will get most of the votes in Detroit, and he had to do nothing for them. Hell he is not even black. He is half N/e/g/r/o and half Caucasian. Good luck Detroit. Hey what ever happened to changing the name of your city to Africa City?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 11:02amNow he can go out and murder a couple more people. No hurry.
Report Post »Clara40
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:33amIt is not Detroit Police officers’ fault. It is the administration over the dispatch center and the government (City of Detroit) who dictate what and when they send police. Same for fire and EMS. Detroit has had a failed dispatch system since the 1970′s. Think Coleman A. Young and, of course, the Democrats who have controlled Detroit for over 5 decades.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:33pmNo, its the unionized polices fault. They aren’t beholden to the public, their loyalties lie with the union.
Report Post »QuincySmith
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:41pmClara and Socco, you both could be right.
Report Post »jonhova
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:05am“The fire station called the police, expecting them to rush to the station to pick up the murder suspect. Instead, the police told them that area patrol units were too busy “handling high priority runs” and therefore “no units were dispatched to the location,” according to the report.”
Yeah, they were too busy dealing with speed traps and parking tickets.
Report Post »ranger82
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:05amthe sooner everyone realizes that 90% of police cant be trusted to even obey the traffic laws they use to fill the state bank accounts! they lie, cheat and steal. they use excessive force everyday! and get away with it I will add! we dont hold police to the same standard as our special forces in the military, and if we did none of them would make the cut! so we put cops on the street withless self-control and disipline they we do troops on a battle field! so they can shoot and beat our own people! some of us military trained people find local city,state and county law officers a joke. It would be laughable if they werent killing our own innocent people, and most of america falling right behind these dirt bag cops to support them. they are just another union stealing from us.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:35pmYou cannot trust the unions, therefore you cannot trust the police to act in the public’s best interest.
Report Post »Akela-6
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:45amV15 and XYSKALLA – “The cop brain is a self-serving, pea-sized organ that carries with it a massive inferiority complex.”
The police come from the same gene pool in which you swim. They aren’t plucked from the magical police tree.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:53amAgreed.
Furthermore, you can expect police cultured in certain areas to reflect how they were brought up. It’s crazy how differently discretion can be exercised.
Report Post »Tomfang
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:18amDetroit is a perfect example of how Unions destroy prosperity. The auto industry as well as the steel mills would both be in great shape now, if not for the Unions !!
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:07amThis is also a perfect story of how union members stand around waiting for someone else to take inititive and do their job for them. Thats why their is always 12 watching as one shovels.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:36pm@Tomfang
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:18am
Detroit is a perfect example of how Unions destroy prosperity. The auto industry as well as the steel mills would both be in great shape now, if not for the Unions !!
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“For we wrestle Not Against Flesh and Blood, but against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephes 6:12 NKJV)
Even Jesus discussed it in John 14:30 “…and I will not talk much with you for the ‘prince of this world’ cometh, and hath nothing in me. (NKJV) If we expect to win this battle from our own goodness, we‘ll be sadly disappointed because it’s His Battle!
usmc1063
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:18amJust another Democratic adminstration with running wild Liberalism. Ummmmm well he didn’t really mean to shoot them or maybe they just stepped in front of those bullets. Let’s see can you stop by a precenct next Tuesday around 3PM? Ohhh no wait better make that 4:30 instead were all booked up till then.
Report Post »Look we all know the Cops are overworked in Detroit but wouldn’t you think they could have afforded just one unit to respond? Just goes to show you how bad it is when police can’t respond to pick up a murder suspect.
Cemoto78
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:26amThis is what liberal/ progressive utopia really looks like. With another four years of Obama and his fellow progressives, we’ll be lucky to get the police to show up at murder scenes at all. I imagine they will all be tied up trying to find all those Obamacare violators.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:51amThey are not over worked. They don’t do anything in Detroit, that is why people are dumping bodies in parking lots. They know they won’t be found for weeks, even when left in the open. Detroit needs to be burned to the ground and it’s residents shipped to Mexico.
Report Post »AllLost
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:50amRepublicans have destroyed that city……what? Oh Democrats have controlled that city for decades? Oh.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 5:05amI know, just the fact of a man who admits to shooting and killing two people, wants to turn himself in and then the police do nothing; typical of Democratic influences over the decades.
Now I have to admit; he turned himself in and it speaks for him, it does not justify murder.
The Democrats will of course fall back on their standard defense of this admin: Blame Bush.
Report Post »grayling646
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:05amGee, there’s no mention whatsoever about race. Any ideas why that is?
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:42pm@grayling646
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:05am
Gee, there’s no mention whatsoever about race. Any ideas why that is?
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No but you can‘t bet the shooter didn’t have a smidgling of white ancestry and the victims black or jessee jackson and the nbp would be rioting in the streets by now!
TheRiflemanNextDoor
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:02amtwo fewer Obama voters….he should get the key to the city…
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:35amPathetic.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 5:54amThe Dem’s lost their keynote speaker…..
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:27amSharpton’s still available.
Report Post »billrow
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:11amIf a black opened fire at a party and killed 20 people it would be barely newsworthy.
It wouldn’t get 1/1000 the attention of the aurora shooter.
Report Post »v15
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:48amThe cop brain is a self-serving, pea-sized organ that carries with it a massive inferiority complex. The cop brain knows no equal – it intimidates everyone and trusts no one………
Report Post »Xyskalla
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:58amTen years ago I would have disagreed with you and I would have been appalled at your lack of respect for those who put their lives on the line for us every day. But all my dealings with the police in recent years verify every word you said. It’s sad.
Report Post »BloodSweatandTears
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:46amI’ve been saying up-side-down-world, for three years plus, now….
Report Post »GodFearingMama
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:36amThey issued a public statement… “They” = Detroit police… They will not be responding to 911 calls unless there is immediate danger.. So they.. “They ”= criminals… Know for damn sure that they can break in wherever they please and no one will be coming to stop them… Motorcity has it’s own special kind of charm.. Oh and our neighboring city Dearborn is almost as attractive.. Come visit anytime :)
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:55amI remember seeing something like this back in the 1980′s……oh yeah, Robocop. How could a B movie see the future so clearly.
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:11amRemember Snake Plisskin? I wonder if he could escape from Detroit.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:35amThe Detroit Police need to pull out of the city and let it clean it self of the vermin.
Report Post »woodyee
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:48amSo do the heads of the Dearborn PD…
Report Post »TEXASGRANNY73
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:58amAre you saying the police are as guilty as the murderer? About 3 years back a young lady knocked on my door trying to sell some cleaning product. I did not buy as we have these people every year but I did invite her in because she said she was from Detroit. Asked her why she was in Texas with the folks she was with and she told me that crime is so bad in Detroit that if it is known you have a job and have money you can be killed. Yes, she was a minority and that was as said 3 years ago. Easy pickins for Obama (some people just have no way out). Tell me, please how Hillary Clinton, an exceedingly wealthy woman managed to give them crumbs while she made millions and yet they vote Democrat then and now? Crumbs for a vote. It is amazing but not Amazing Grace.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:50pm@banjarmon
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:35am
The Detroit Police need to pull out of the city and let it clean it self of the vermin.
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woodyee
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:48am
So do the heads of the Dearborn PD
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Maybe we should build an “OK CORRAL” in the middle of it, and put out an ad on the internet for 21st century cowboys!
SilentReader
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:33amI’m sure head coward Eric Holder will have it under control. You’d better check to see if the perpetrator is White or Black though. Because Eric Holder doesn’t prosecute White people.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 6:47amdon’t you mean that Epic Holdup does not prosecute black people? He has stated that blacks cannot be racists and cannot commit hate crimes, so if this is a black on black shooting he is not interested and if it was a black on white shooting he would have DOJ defend the black man.
OMG Nov 6, 2012
Report Post »guitarspook
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:33amwhy didn’t the fire department zip-tie the guy? This is almost as bad for them as the police… Go Detroit!
Report Post »ipockpa
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:13amFire fighters are not cops they have no legal standing to restrain him especially after the the police showed no interest.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:48amDidn’t want a union grievance filed against them
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:30am…
Report Post »It’s Detroit.
No explanation necessary.
whatthecrazy
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:24amuhhh killin people isnt high priority??????????
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:31amWell, seeing as they were already dead…
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