Vehicle with four shooting victims crashes into Church's Chicken in Detroit
DETROIT - A wild scene on Detroit's east side has police investigating not one but two different crime scenes where a quadruple shooting followed by a crash into a fast food restaurant left four injured.
The incident started around 9:45 Monday night at O'Brien Park, near Bradford and Kennebec. The popular location has become rife with crime, neighbors say, from drug deals to vandalism. Late last night, it was gunfire.
"I heard like I said about four or five shots around 10, maybe right before 10," said one neighbor.
"I just hollered and told the kids and the wife to just lay on the floor. 'Y'all lay down on the floor up there, lay down on the floor,' and I didn't move out of my bed because I know they were going to do what I asked them to do and they did."
Four men in their late 20's were at the location when a dark-colored Chevy Trailblazer pulled up and fired shots at the group, hitting all of them. One of the victims who were also armed returned fire, but it's unclear if the suspect shooter was hit.
"It sounded like they were at least two to three different guns," said the neighbor.
The victims then tried driving themselves to a local hospital but while en route, they collided with a sedan before plowing into a Church's Chicken, causing extensive damage to the front side of that restaurant.
Footage from the wreckage on 7 Mile near Gratiot showed more than half of the victim's vehicle through the restaurant.
From there, the four were all privately conveyed to a local hospital where they were treated for non-life-threatening injuries. While a news release from the Detroit Police Department labeled the victims' conditions as either stable or temporarily serious, it's not clear how each individual was doing.
Officers still didn't have an ID on the suspect, which is why they're asking if anyone has any follow-up information that they give the 9th Precinct a call.