Police say a car just pulled up and the gunshots started flying an 11-year-old child has now died after being hit by one of those bullets thanks for joining us here at 5:30 I’m Karen Drew and I’m Deon Fernandez that shooting happened right around 7:30 last night at the intersections of Beaconsfield and
Corville streets in Detroit’s East Side let’s get out to our Shawn lay who’s been digging into the story Sean what are police telling you about this right now the details we’re learning the on just awful makes your skin crawl here A bunch of kids from the neighborhood all
Play together all the time they were out roller skating early yesterday evening 7: to 7:30 the description here of a car driving by these kids down the block stopping and then firing guns back at them one hit an 11-year-old boy he later died at the hospital here’s the latest from
Police it was a very tragic incident uh we basically had someone drive by fire shots we don’t know what the motive was in this um right now we have very limited information is an open investigation but we need everybody’s help late today Detroit police updating the horrific drive by shooting that
Killed an 11-year-old boy here on Beaconsfield on Detroit’s East Side Sunday evening neighbors tell us the kids here play together they were roller skating around 7:30 people in a car drive past them stop and the unimaginable someone in that car opening fire back at the kids who were skating
On the sidewalks and street is that the children were outside they were roller skating so they were outside playing um it was 7:30 p.m. thereabouts and they to our knowledge they had no interaction with the individuals that drove by this is an active police investigation Detroit police here last night and back
Out this afternoon with a canine looking for any shred of evidence that will help find the person who fired those deadly shots neighbors describing to me a scary and sad scene when I looked out the window I saw kids crawling past my house what do you mean crawling like they were on the
Ground crawling past the house to get away from gun away from from the shooting or the noise of the shooting kids kids it’s one of the sadest things I’ve heard in a while guys kids out roller skating shots fired an 11-year-old is hit and the other kid’s crawling away
Trying to get away from those shots absolutely devastating here that Mom we just spoke to got our kids inside and the shots rang out you heard police saying they need everyone’s help on this people heard those shots in the neighborhood thought they were fireworks they need someone who looked outside and
Saw the car they need a description of that car first perhaps to get them going in the investigation live at the public safety headquarters Shawn L local for back to you oh man Sean just senseless
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