Police killed a shotgun-wielding man in suburban Detroit on Sunday after he fatally shot his spouse and wounded their daughter, authorities mentioned.
A 25-year-old girl known as 911 at about 4:11 a.m. and “acknowledged that she had simply been shot by her father” on Glenwood Drive in Walled Lake, based on an Oakland County Sheriff’s Workplace assertion.
When deputies and Walled Lake police arrived on the residence, the person, recognized as 53-year-old Igor Lanis, got here out the entrance door with a Remington 870 pump motion shotgun and began capturing at officers, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
A Walled Lake police officer in addition to an Oakland County sheriff’s deputy returned fireplace, killing Lanis, based on the assertion. No officers had been injured.
The sheriff’s workplace has not mentioned what led Lanis to open fireplace on his household.
The 911 caller was “on the entrance door … trying to crawl from the house” earlier than officers “dragged her to security,” authorities mentioned.
She was taken to a hospital and rushed into emergency surgical procedure, based on the sheriff’s workplace, including the lady’s situation had been upgraded from crucial to steady.
Officers discovered the person’s spouse and the household canine useless inside the house. The girl, 56, had been “shot a number of instances within the again, and it seems that she was additionally trying to flee out of the entrance door,” the sheriff’s workplace mentioned with out disclosing the lady’s title.
The canine additionally was shot a number of instances.
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