Detroit Police, Fire & Severe Weather Incidents
Michael Lopez is considered armed and dangerous. Do not attempt to make contact. Call 911 immediately if spotted.
Melvindale: A Melvindale PD officer was shot after making contact with 2 subjects at Oakwood & Dix, Finish Line Car Wash, Sunday morning around 11:40AM.
A Melvindale officer notified dispatch he was out making contact with 2 at the car wash, 2621 Oakwood. Shortly after contact was made, the officer reported he had at least 1 subject running from the scene.
The officer reported the suspect was running through a backyard in the 17344 Clarann St.
Melvindale dispatch made numerous attempts to contact with the officer(s) while responding officers repeatedly asked for more information, the incident was taking place in the City of Melvindale and responding Dearborn officers were unfamiliar with streets.
Contact was eventually made when an officer reported there was an officer down and requested rescue and more units to the shooting scene on Clarann.
Fire Station 5/Rescue 5 was dispatched and conveyed the wounded officer to the hospital.
Units from multiple agencies including, Dearborn, Lincoln Park, Melvindale, Allen Park, Detroit Police, Michigan State Police, BATFE, Wayne County Sheriff’s Office and Wyandotte were dispatched to the scene while officers gathered information on the suspect, later identified as Michael Lopez, a 44yo Puerto Rican male, 6′ 1″ wearing all dark clothes with gold accents according to dispatch audio. Witnesses on scene reported the suspect was last seen heading EB on Dora.
Agencies requested K9 and an air unit to the scene. MSP reported Melvindale PD was required to contact MSP Air due to them being an outside agency. No MSP air assets were airborne at the time and needed to to be recalled. Dispatch audio suggests in order to be recalled, MSP needed a call to their operations from Melvindale PD so a recall could be initiated.
While waiting for MSP or Oakland County air to make the scene, a drone requested to the scene.
Officers notified dispatch that a gun was tossed by the suspect on Dora and that weapon was recovered.
Witnesses reported the suspect stole a bike while fleeing, a green mountain bike according to dispatch audio and was last seen heading north towards Oakwood.
Subsequent dispatch audio announced the officer was deceased at Oakwood Hospital in Dearborn. Notifications have been made.
The search for the suspect continues and the area is completely locked down at the time of this writing. MSP’s Trooper 3 is assisting in the search.
Detroit’s Northend: Detroit Fire responded to Brush & Chandler earlier this morning around 235AM on reports of a fire in a commercial building. Arriving companies reported smoke showing and Engine 35 stretched on the burning townhouse. Battalion Chief 5 took incident command with Battalion Chief 1 as the safety officer on the fire scene.
During operations, Engine 17 reported finding a body in a doorway on the first floor. Battalion Chief 5 ordered DPD Arson and DPD Scouts to the fire scene. Companies took quick control of the fire and the fire was out within an hour.
Detroit Fire Companies on Brush/Chandler Fire Scene: E39, E35, Hamtramck E1, E17, E40, Ladder 7, Ladder 22, Ladder 20, Squad 2, Squad 3, Battalion Chief 1, Battalion Chief 5, DEMS Medic 1, DEMS Supervisor 1107, DPD Arson Car 808, DPD’s 3rd Precinct Scouts.
Detroit’s West Side: Detroit Police 2nd Precinct investigating a fatal shooting at Schoolcraft & Littlefield. The shooting took place at around 1010PM Friday night. Dispatch audio suggests the victim was an 18 year old. Responding units were advised the victim was in cardiac arrest. Detroit Fire’s Engine 53 (MFR), DEMS Medic 2 and DEMS Supervisor 1105 also responded.
DEMS Medic 2 reported the victim was a K-Type (Fatal) on scene.
Update via DPD: at approximately 10:09 p.m. in the area of Compass and Littlefield, an adult male who was accompanied by a female and a 1-year-old female child were in the area, when four male suspects pulled up in a newer model gray Dodge Durango.
The suspects fired shots striking the male victim, fatally wounding him. The suspects then took the child and fled the scene.
The DPD is looking for a newer model gray Dodge Durango, Michigan license plate EAD 187.
If anyone recognizes this vehicle or has any information pertaining to this crime, please call the Detroit Police Department’s Major Crimes Unit at 313-596-2260, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-Speak Up, or http://DetroitRewards.TV.
Detroit’s East Side: DPD’s 5th Precinct and DEMS Medic 24 were dispatched to 18300 E Warren, Riverview Health & Rehab, on reports of a child bitten by an alligator. How an alligator ended up in a retirement community is unknown. DEMS Medic 24 was first on the scene and reported the alligator was no longer there. DPD Scouts were canceled.
Sources tell me the alligator was last seen hightailing it towards Belle Isle. Medic 24 took care of the child and all is well. I have no idea how an alligator made it to a retirement community, unless we’re talking a really weird grandparent.
The alligator is still out there…waiting.
Below is the dispatch audio of the great alligator caper…
Alligators are not pets…no wildlife is, please refrain from partaking in such nonsense. Let them live their lives free of our <redacted> stupidity.