The tax payer relief shot is becoming a common occurrence in Detroit
Via Detroit FREEP
A man suspected of being a getaway driver is dead after being shot as burglary suspects fled a home this morning on Detroit’s west side and then drove into another house, injuring a woman there, police said.
It appears to be the latest example of Detroiters fatally shooting intruders.
After shots were fired this morning, the suspect’s Dodge minivan punched a large hole in the side of the second house on the southern corner of Glastonbury Avenue and Lancashire Street. Police arrived to find the driver dead on the scene, Detroit Police spokesman Sgt. Michael Woody said.
Two other suspects fled, Woody said. The suspects had broken through a window on the side of the first home, also on Glastonbury Avenue, earlier.
The residents of the first home who had been playing video games in the basement shot at the suspects as they came downstairs, Woody said. The suspects ran to the front of the house to escape and kicked a locked security door off its hinges on their way out. When they got outside, they turned and fired shots at the residents before entering the van, Woody said.
The residents returned fire, hitting the van and its driver.
“The driver hit the gas and drove over the median into the house across the street,” Woody said.
Tracks could be seen this morning leading from a smashed yield sign through the yard into the second house.
Damon Bradley, 32, said his 29-year-old sister was inside that house when the van drove into it. His sister was injured and taken to a nearby hospital.
“It’s almost like a bad dream,” he said. “You don’t expect to be waking up to a call of this magnitude.”
The part of the home the van hit was a bathroom, Bradley said. He said his sister was near the bathroom when the vehicle plowed through a brick wall. Bradley grew up in the house, which belongs to his family.