Posted on 04/15/2025 11:28:20 AM PDT by marktwain
DETROIT (FOX 2) - Two brothers are in critical condition, and at least three other family members were shot after an altercation at a house in the 14500 block of Sussex Street in Detroit on Saturday afternoon.
Assistant Chief Charles Fitzgerald of the Detroit Police Department said that two brothers were arguing over a family matter, when they got into a fight.
A family member who called FOX 2 said that the two brothers were fighting over something to do with their mother, who had died earlier in the day.
Fitzgerald said that during a fight, the gun fell out of one of the brother's waistbands, the other brother picked it up and opened fire. He said that other family members then returned fire to defend the first brother who was shot.
Two people, including the brother who is thought to be the original shooter, have been arrested. Fitzgerald said they were "still sorting out" the rest.
Preliminary information shows that the younger brother was shot in the chest, and the older brother was shot in the right shoulder. Both are listed in critical condition.
Three women were also injured. They were also shot, and are in temporary serious condition.
The shooting happened just after 4 p.m.
The fighting all happened outside the house.
"I don't know what to make of it," Fitzgerald said. "In 31 years on this job this is one of the crazier ones I've heard."
The two brothers are 57- and 53-years-old. One of the women is 51- and the others are 31- and 23-years old.
This story will be updated as more information is released.
No names?
Oh now, that’s just the children fussin’ and fightin’. You know how they do.
Doesn’t everybody have a gun in the waistband?
At least they all had the foresight to bring guns to a gunfight.
Good ole Lancaster neighborhood in da hood parrish of Deetroit
“Fuhget it, Jake, it’s Detroit.”
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City
And I dreamed about those cottonfields and home
I dreamed about my mother, dear old papa, sister and brother
I dreamed about that girl, who's been waiting for so long
I wanna go home, I wanna go home, oh how I wanna go home
Homefolks think I'm big in Detroit City
From the letters that I write they think I'm fine
By day I make the cars, by night I make the bars
If only they could read between the lines
'Cause you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit City
And after all these years I find, I've just been wastin' my time
So I just think I'll take my foolish pride
Put it on a Southbound freight and ride
And go on back to the loved ones, the ones that I left waitin' so far behind
I wanna go home, I wanna go home, oh how I wanna go home
Da’Narius and Sha’NayNay Washington
someone dissed someone
Ahhh Irish lads I suppose, I know ‘em well.
Irish Alzheimer’s: You forget everything except your grudges
Two brothers, 57 and 53, arguing over something about ther mother, who had died earlier the same day.
First guess: the older one told his brother who his father really was.
Second guess: there being no will and all bequests being verbal, they were arguing over who she intended to leave the car, as she had promised it to both.
Violence in the City of Detroit? I find that hard to believe. /S
Full disclosure: I was born in a Detroit hospital in 1946, then bundled up in a Hudson and driven to a nice, safe suburb where I grew up. The neighborhood looked just like Mayfield on Leave it to Beaver. A blessing.
A woman in her 80s I interviewed for a high school living history assignment in 1963 (she was born around 1880) said her family moved out there to the sparsely populated practically frontier area to get away from the lawlessness and rampant crime of Detroit back then.
Something tells me this isn’t the first time this has happened at one of their family gatherings that if a number of them came armed.
With 3 critical and 2 serious....some may be joining mom.
Why, it's almost unheard of!
Waiting for what Yogi says to Boo Boo.
Song....
Very little is written about the white people moving North to get jobs, compared to the Great Migration as it is called for black people moving to Chicago and Detroit along with the Delta Blues music and folk songs.
At one time Ypsilanti, Michigan was called “Ypsitucky” due to nearly half the residents being auto industry workers or B-24 bomber factory ones being from Kentucky and other states. The WWII Arsenal of Democracy region surrounding the Detroit area. The other 28% were black people from southern states.
No names which suggests one thing but pictures of the neighborhood calls that one thing into question. I am more suspicious of the lack of names, though. That most often indicates a particular ethnicity.
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