Crime and Public Safety

"(Kilpatrick's) sentence was 28 years," he said. "And I think reasonable minds can disagree about that. I can see a lot of people thinking that it is excessive. But what he eventually only served, was seven years."

When Kwame Kilpatrick was originally sentenced, he was ordered to pay $4.5 million to the city of Detroit but that was later amended. However, his commutation paperwork listed the original number.

Dearborn Heights Police said they arrested a man for shooting and killing his step-brother after a basketball game argument on Sunday.

Detroit police say a 5-year-old has died after accidentally being shot by an 18-month old on Sturtevant Street near La Salle Blvd.

A Grand Traverse County commissioner member retrieved his rifle during a meeting on Wednesday as a resident was commenting about the far-right group Proud Boys speaking at a council meeting in March 2020.

One woman is dead and a man is in critical condition after Detroit police say he shot her before turning the gun on himself after they had arrived.

A Calumet man from Michigan's Upper Peninsula was charged with violent entry and other crimes after the FBI arrested him in Houghton County. He is accused of storming the U.S. Capitol weeks before.

"He is a spiritual person, and he has talked a lot about ministering to fellow inmates and other people," M.L. Elrick said. "So perhaps that's his calling. The question we all have is, what's next?"

Over the course of the past year, there have been rumors and speculation that Kwame Kilpatrick would get a reprieve from prison. That became reality on Donald Trump's last days in office.

The commutation knocks about 20 years off his 28-year sentence. Kilpatrick served seven years for corruption and racketeering in office. He served as mayor of Detroit from 2001 to 2008. He was sentenced in 2013 and has since lost his appeals.

Toledo Police Officer Brandon Stalker, 24, was shot and killed Monday when Christopher Harris, 27, emerged from a home with “a firearm in both hands and fired shots in multiple directions,” police said.

A vigil was held Tuesday outside the Groveland Manor in Holly, where Trinity Raine lived. Candles were lit, and balloons released for a life cut tragically short.

The driver of the Dodge Ram, a 45-year-old man and his 12-year-old daughter both died from their injuries. A second 12-year-old child is hospitalized and the driver of the commercial truck was not injured, according to Shelby Township police.

Siblings in Steen's large family is working to make sense of it all. Sources tell FOX 2 a domestic incident happened Sunday night at the house off Clairview near Inkster. No one else was hurt.  

"If I saw (the thieves) I'd say you ripped my heart out," Hall said. "And I'm telling you when I tell the kids tomorrow they're going to be so devastated it's not even funny. A special needs adult - when they get hurt - they act differently - it's going to be a deep wound for them."

A St. Clair Shores minister with groceries for those in need stopped to help what he thought was another driver in trouble. Instead, it was a trap, and the 51-year-old victim was beaten and carjacked.

The murder of a Wayne State student on December 26 remains unsolved and her family is hoping a reward of over $10,000 will help someone step up and say something.

"2021 is a big summer," Steve Hood said. "You have the mayoral race and the entire City Council race. Former Mayor Kilpatrick, should he decide to engage, could play a big role."