ROMULUS, Mich. – Flem Peacher VI has spent his entire life in Romulus.
He’s the pastor of the Father & Son Faith Christian Center in Westland and runs his own dog-training business.
However, his entire world was nearly destroyed in a hail of bullets on the night of May 6.
“It was the most devastating, longest 30 seconds of my life,” Peacher said on Wednesday (June 17) at the Crime Stoppers headquarters in Southfield. “Since then, my family and I have been traumatized by the experience.”
It happened just after 10 p.m. that night.
Surveillance video captured a young man wearing a white hoodie walking near his home in the 6000 block of 2nd Street in Romulus.
In the video, the young man appears to be checking his phone when he suddenly jogs back toward his house, pulls out a gun, and begins firing.
“We were ambushed by what appeared to be fireworks,” Peacher said. “As I was going towards the window, I realized that those weren’t fireworks; those were bullets ripping through my home.”
In total, 20 shots were fired, and 14 bullets tore through his home with Peacher’s wife and five children inside, scrambling for cover.
Peacher says he thinks the shooting was some sort of coordinated hit, even though he doesn’t have any known enemies or beef with anyone.
“These bullets were so close to my family and I,” Peacher said. “It was only the grace of God that He covered us and protected us.”
“Right now, we’re trying to get back to some form of normalcy, but even that’s been rough. My kids, they’ve been dealing with it, but it has not been in the best shape,” Peacher said.
While this entire incident has shaken him emotionally, it hasn’t shaken his faith, and he hopes whoever did this will do the right thing and turn themselves in.
“Don’t just turn yourself in, but I’m praying that you turn yourself into the Lord, I’m praying that you would turn your heart to the Lord above all,” Peacher said. “This just has to stop.”
If you have any information or tips about what happened that night, you can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAK-UP.
Your tips do remain anonymous.