Since Detroit is among the highest per-capital crime cities in the U.S., Detroit is one of 7 cities getting $7 million from Trump to address: drug trafficking, street gangs, and other violent crime.
You can’t make this up… A Detroit Demolition Contractor has torn down the wrong home – for the second time! The city paid them $25,000 to take down the home, but they went to the wrong address, 14661 Alma instead of 14461 Alma. Critics claim this is because of State of Michigan licensing requirements for demos – so the good ones have left the state, leaving the most incompetent ones for Detroit. However, one commenter wrote, “It is hard to blame them – I think most every home in Detroit looks like it should be immediately torn down.”
A family of 6 were asleep in their home at 1am in River Rouge near Cora and Jefferson when someone Shot well over a dozen bullets into the home and car. A 25-year-old cousin was asleep on the couch when he was shot in the neck. He is now in intensive care with 2 shattered vertebra and nerve damage. Doctors say it is too risky to remove the bullet. The homeowner, Robert Burnley, says “my car is totaled, so I have no way to get to work. 6 months ago, an unsavory character moved onto the street and there has been one criminal incident after the other. They shot the wrong home but we aren’t taking any chances and moving before nightfall. A family friend setup a GoFundMe page to help:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-family-move-due-to-shooting
And finally, in “It is a Darwin move to be anywhere near Detroit” news,
- Detroit Police are investigating a double shooting at a Project Greenlight liquor store on E. McNichols. One victim drove himself and the other victim to the hospital.
- 39-year-old Marion Scruggs set his girlfriend’s Detroit home on fire after an argument. No people were in the home buy one of two dogs died in the blaze.
- Two people were killed in separate incidents at Fenkell and Greenfield. One man was beaten to death and the other was shot on his front porch.
- Detroiter Mark Dodd was charged with 29 felonies in a scheme to steal thousands from Medicaid and food stamp programs. Dodd is a 4th-time habitual offender and faces life in prison.
- Detroit Fire Fighters discovered a dead body while battling a fire in a garage area. They haven’t determined the cause of the fire and scheduled an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
- A Detroit man with mental-health issues fired shots at neighbors near 7 Mile Road and Pelkey, after barricading himself his home – it is now the 3rd day of the standoff.
- A 21-year-old passenger in a parked U-Haul truck in Detroit was shot. He was transported to the hospital where he was declared deceased.
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