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Murder of 7 by father after release from mental hospital: 1967 Detroit riot: Detroit: 1967-07-23-28: 43: Race riot in which 43 people were killed [2] Algiers Motel incident: Detroit: 1967-07-25/26: 3: Three civilians shot and killed by police at the Algiers Hotel during the 1967 Detroit riot, dramatized in the 2017 film Detroit: Robison family ...
At the time it occurred, the Hazelwood massacre was "the biggest mass slaying in Detroit's history". [4] It was part of a record year for murders in Detroit, many tied to drug wars, with the final death toll for 1971 reaching 690. [12] During the 1970s, Detroit led the nation in homicides and became known as "Murder City". [13] [14] [15]
The investigation of Bashara's death was conducted jointly by the Grosse Pointe Park police and the Detroit Police Department. [6] The Michigan State Police also participated in the investigation. [3] On January 27, 2012, Grosse Pointe Park Police Chief David Hiller announced that Bob Bashara was "a person of interest" in the investigation.
This is the crash scene from Nov. 17, 2023, when a teenage Grosse Pointe driver lost control of a BMW at 105 mph on a residential street, killing his passenger: Flynn MacKrell, 18, a freshman at ...
A man in an "intimate relationship" with a Michigan neurosurgeon has been charged in the doctor's slaying, authorities announced Wednesday. Dr. Devon Hoover, 53, was found shot dead in his Detroit ...
The murder of Renisha Marie McBride (April 11, 1994 –November 2, 2013), a 19-year-old African American teenager, occurred on November 2, 2013, in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, United States. Renisha McBride crashed her car while intoxicated at a street in Detroit , and then walked to a neighborhood in Dearborn Heights where she knocked on the ...
A fatal crash between a motorcycle and a car on the 18900 block of Morang Avenue was the third motorcycle-riding death in metro Detroit in a week, adding to the statistics that highlight two ...
In 2017, there were 267 murders in Detroit - down from 303 in 2016. The violent crime rate of 2,057 per 100,000 was the second highest in the nation after St. Louis. It was roughly ten times the average rate of the suburban counties of metro Detroit which had violent crime rates below the national average of 394 per 100,000.