How many triple shootings have there been in your town? Probably zero, ever. Meanwhile there is a double or triple Shooting once a month in Detroit. This week’s triple shooting occurred on Washburn at 1am, although 3 people were struck by bullets at this shootout, another was run over by a car and died from his injuries. Detroit Police are circulating surveillance images of persons of interest.

The billionaire Illitch family owns Olympia Development, their real estate holding company. They currently hold 34 empty building and several dozen empty lots. A vacant bar that they own, The Gold Dollar, burned down this week, that investigators are calling suspicious and evidence that squatters were living in it. (What is suspicious is that any building in Detroit is still standing!)

7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones was accidentally killed by Detroit Police during a raid in 2010. Police were searching for her father, Charles Jones. Jones was just re-sentenced to 10-20 years in prison for being a habitual offender when he helped another man kill a teen next to a party store because, “I didn’t like the way he was looking at me.” The teen was less than a year from graduating from high school and enrolling in the U.S. Marines.

And finally, in “It is a Darwin move to be anywhere near Detroit” news,

• A 71-year-old Detroit woman shot and killed her next door neighbor while he was cutting the grass. The woman faces 10 felony counts as she threatened two others.
• Detroit’s 150-unit subsidized housing building is infested with bed bugs in the A/C system. The management company acknowledges the problem with the bed bugs (as well as a mal-functioning air-conditioner system and doors that do not lock), but says it is hard to eradicate them. So residents spend the night getting bitten in sweltering heat. Residents say the only management response to problems is, “We’re working on it.”
• A Detroit gas station clerk spotted a man stealing bags of potato chips and fired a shot through the glass front, but instead of hitting the thief, an innocent 22-year-old was struck and is listed in temporary serious condition.  
• Detroit Police are searching for 23-year-old Lawrence Davis for beating a young man to death in a road-rage incident after an accident. Davis has a criminal record of violence going back to when he was 15-years-old. The 24-year-old victim, Tyler Wingate from Royal Oak, was planning on moving to Detroit.
• A suspected murderer was denied bond in Detroit – this may be a first! Gary Bell ran up on a couple by 7 Mile Rd and Prest, shooting both. The man died and the woman was left in critical condition. Bell is being charged with First-Degree Murder, among other felonies.
• Detroit Police are searching for suspects for a non-fatal shooting downtown at Gratiot and Harper, the shooting occurred during an argument.
• A 28-year-old was shot and killed at a gas station on Gratiot just south of 8 Mile Road. The victim tried to run after an argument but was shot multiple times.
• 24-year-old Lonnie Hill was denied bond for First-Degree Murder for shooting a man multiple times during a dice game by a Detroit high school on Riad.

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