The perpetrator of a shooting that left three dead and one injured on Sunday in Detroit has been arrested, police said in this northern city of the United States, while in Texas three other people were killed in another shooting . Detroit, Michigan police chief James White told media that the first three victims – two women and a man – were shot at different locations in the city in the early hours of the morning. After seeing the suspect scanning the interior of cars, a fourth man asked him to stop before being targeted in turn by a shot, explained the policeman.
Three victims in Detroit
Three of the victims died and one survived, police told local media. Photographs of the suspect have been released and authorities have called on anyone who recognizes him to contact police. The shootings appear to have been carried out “completely at random”, the police chief said during a press conference. One victim was “waiting for the bus, another was walking her dog and another was just in the street,” he said. Around 9 p.m. (1 a.m. GMT), Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced that the suspect had been found and arrested.
“We got it,” the mayor wrote on Twitter. He said that with “crucial information from the community” and “strong support” from law enforcement, the shooter was taken into custody without incident.
We got him.
The Detroit Police Department showed again today why it’s as fine as any in America.
— Mayor Mike Duggan (@MayorMikeDuggan) August 29, 2022
Three people killed in Houston
Also on Sunday, authorities in the city of Houston, Texas announced that three people were shot and killed there by a man who had first set fire to their home. “This suspect unfortunately (..) set fire to several residences, waited for residents to come out and fired at them,” Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said at a press conference. He added that firefighters battling the blazes had to take cover from the shooter at the same time. The police eventually intervened and shot the man dead.
According to the Houston police chief, the shooter had recently received an eviction order, which “may have been a trigger.”
Meanwhile, an NFL footballer, Brian Robinson Jr, was targeted by gunfire in the capital Washington in a possible carjacking, but is in stable condition, the report reported. washington post. The United States is regularly the scene of shootings while parliamentarians are reluctant to pass gun control legislation, although acclaimed by most Americans.