DETROIT – A good Samaritan in her 60s tackled a shooter who shot three residents over a noise complaint following a barbeque at an apartment complex on Detroit’s east side.
“At about 9:30 p.m., we had police come out to the 75,000 block of Jefferson. The call came out that two males were shot. Officers came to the scene, and when they came to the scene, they found out that they had four victims,” said Detroit police Deputy Chief Arnold Williams of eastern operations.
Williams said initially that it was three victims, but they found another victim who was in his apartment.
Police said one of the victims who was shot was a suspect who had an issue with people who were behind the building barbequing and having a good time.
Officials said they were probably making a little bit of noise when the police reported that the suspect, who was the man, told them that if they didn’t stop making noise, he was going to come down and take care of them.
“He came down and started firing shots,” Williams said. “Three people were wounded by his firing those shots. During that time when he was firing shots, one of the individuals who was shot tackled the shooter. Took him to the ground. He dropped his weapon when a good Samaritan picked it up and, in self-defense, fired the weapon and wounded the shooter.”
Multiple sources told Local 4 that all four victims have been transported to Detroit Receiving Hospital for treatment, where they were listed in stable condition.
Police said all of the victims range from the ages of 60 to the late 70s.
Officials stated that everyone was in custody and that their investigation would continue.
The good Samaritan was a woman in her 60s who retrieved the gun and shot the shooter in self-defense, according to police.
“This is a shooting that is so ridiculous in nature that you can’t even explain it,” Williams said.
Police said they don’t know what the relationship is between everyone and each other, but they believe that all of the victims live in the apartment.
Detroit police Deputy Chief Arnold Williams talks quadruple shooting on the city’s east side