DETROIT – A woman inside Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit spoke to Local 4 about what’s going onside as police investigate a shooting.
UPDATE: What we know so far about Henry Ford Hospital shooting
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Henry Ford Hospital on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit was placed on lockdown around 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, for reports of a shooting.
Sources told Local 4 that there was a shooting in the basement. Dozens of police cars and armed ATF agents were immediately called to the hospital.
A woman named Carmen went to the hospital Friday morning for a family member’s surgery. She called Local 4 from inside the surgery prep area and described the scene.
“I was sitting out on the west entrance in an area by the window and we heard over the loud speaker there was a code blue in the basement,” she said. “Then we heard a lot of yelling and it appeared a nurse was trying to clear the hallway by where I was sitting and shuffled everyone in the hallway down to the waiting area that I was sitting in outside of the surgery center.
“We stood there for maybe about 5 minutes and the nurse came out and said that there was an active shooter in the basement. Then, a few minutes later, they shuffled us into the patient area where they prep the patients for surgery. At this point, I’m sitting in a small little waiting area with two other people and there’s kind of some activity outside the door that I’m at, security guards and stuff, but that’s about it.”
Local 4 is hearing from sources that security video showed the suspected shooter leaving the hospital through the front door.
The lockdown was lifted around 10:45 a.m. Friday.
“I’m pretty shaken, I would say, but at first we all kind of remained calm because we didn’t really understood what code blue meant in the basement,” Carmen said. “So me and all the waiting room people were just kind of looking at each other, like, ‘What does this mean?’ Then when the nurse came and said there’s an active shooter in the basement, that’s kind of when we all got a little bit nervous.”
The street remains closed and a massive police presence is at the scene. It’s unclear if the shooter is in custody or if the search continues.
Police don’t believe this was a random shooting. It might have stemmed from a domestic situation.