GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. – A man was arrested and is facing federal charges after running from police during a traffic stop and hiding a gun in the process.
On May 4, 2025, Flint Township police conducted a traffic stop on Keenan D. Tate. Police said he did not have a driver’s license with him, so officers had to place him in custody.
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As he was getting arrested, Tate allegedly got out of the car and ran behind a nearby home. Police later arrested Tate in the garden section of a nearby Walmart.
What surveillance video showed
After further investigation, authorities learned that Tate was captured on surveillance at three separate nearby homes while running away from police.
In the first video, the homeowner’s video surveillance captured Tate jumping a fence while carrying what appears to be a black gun in his right hand.
At another home, the homeowner told police they saw in the surveillance video that Tate was in their driveway and hid under their car. In the video, Tate has his phone in his hand, but the gun is no longer visible.
An employee from the Walmart where Tate was arrested told police that he was captured on the store’s surveillance cameras leaving the garage of the third home prior to entering Walmart.
Police spoke to the homeowner, who told an officer that they confronted Tate in their garage. According to the homeowner, they opened the garage door, and Tate ran towards the nearby Walmart.
Police then found a black and orange jacket in the garage, matching the jacket Tate wore when he ran from police.
The following day, police retraced Tate’s steps from the car he ran out of to the nearby Walmart.
Police later found a gun in a small aluminum shed behind two pieces of steel roofing.
Court documents said the gun was a Glock, Model 30S, .45 caliber pistol with a Glock switch affixed to it. The gun had nine live .45 caliber rounds of ammunition: eight rounds in the magazine and one round in the chamber.
Investigators believe this was the same gun Tate was carrying, as seen in surveillance video.
Previous conviction
Court documents said Tate was sentenced in 2009 to five to 20 years in prison following his conviction for carjacking, a felony offense.
Tate faces federal charges of felon in possession of a firearm and knowingly possessing a machinegun.