Police: Suspect fires at Detroit officers, escapes standoff
DETROIT – An all-night standoff at a Detroit home involving police, a gunman, and a young child has ended — but the suspect managed to escape, reports CBS Detroit.
Police say the situation unfolded early Wednesday morning, when a game of dice turned violent.
“Someone was upset (from) the dice game, so then shots started being fired,” Detroit Police Capt. Darrell Patterson told CBS Detroit. “The police came and when the suspect saw the police, he started firing shots at the police officers.”
Patterson said the suspect — identified as 40-year-old Deangelo Davis — dropped his AK-47 at the scene and then ran to a nearby home, where he was thought to have barricaded himself inside. Several people were also inside the home, including a 4-year-old child.
Officers set up a perimeter and began negotiations. Eventually, nine people came out of the house, but the child remained inside with Davis, according to police.
Patterson said the child was left behind because, he “was hard to wake up.”
“I find that very odd,” said Patterson. “The first thing I would have done was grab my child, so I don’t know what the folks were thinking.”
Patterson said the child eventually woke up and exited the house unharmed. At that point, officers made entry to the home — but Davis was nowhere to be found.
It wasn’t immediately clear how Davis was able to escape.
No arrests have been made and police said Davis should be considered “armed and dangerous.”