

After extinguishing the blaze, they found the bodies of three men, burned so badly that their autopsy results are still pending three months later, according to the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office. Homicide victims found in burned homeĮarly on June 11, Detroit Fire Department personnel arrived on the 19100 block of Helen - off East Seven Mile, west of Van Dyke - to fight a house fire. Detroit Police Chief James Craig called it the best police work he had seen in a four-decade career. In December, Detroit police negotiated with a barricaded man for three days before he gave up. Police said from the earliest hours of the standoff that they would be willing to "wait it out," so long as it ended peacefully. "I'm happy, really happy, like anybody else would be," the father said Wednesday morning, after his son escaped the home. identified his son, Richard Jr., 44, as the male hostage.

The male was able to escape 13 hours later. The female hostage was released about 5 p.m. Then the man punched out a window, entered the home - his own home - and declared the man and woman inside as his hostages. It didn't hit anyone, but was enough to keep police from advancing. Police followed him on foot, until the man allegedly fired a single shot. When the man reached a home on the 15300 block of Iliad, he left the truck running and stepped onto the porch. Redford police tried to pull the truck over.īut he kept on driving, east on Fenkell, then north onto Iliad. Al DiPrima of the Redford Police Department. Tuesday when a man in an older GMC pickup truck allegedly "disregarded" a red light at Telegraph and Fenkell, said Capt. Ordeal started with 'disregarded' red light
