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.
Yogi says: “Use a holster, Boo-boo. Your junk won’t fall out your waistband.”
That is the sentence which got my attention. “The other family members then returned fire to defend the first brother who was shot.”
So, every family member in that home was packing.
Their Mom just died this morning, and they’re shooting out their grief before dinner. What a family!
Quentin Tarrantino would have loved producing a scene like that one.
It’s them again, Yogi.
Put ‘em all in an arena with firearms and let God sort out the rest.
Maybe in Deeetroit, but in Chicago, I've heard for years that a .32 gun should be kept in your pocket for fun.
Sounds like in Detroit, they don't even have a razor in their shoes.
Can’t remember which tv series (maybe more than one) had a funeral and the casket outdoors opened up and a guy jumped up and starting firing automatic weapon rounds in all directions at the mourners. And I think got away in a car.
After hearing that Jim Croce LeRoy Brown hit all those times.
Is the family Easter dinner still on?
At least everyone had a gun. 😐
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.Yes. I agree about "very little is written."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.
That song — "Detroit City," performed by Bobby Bare — is one I remember from traveling across the country with my parents, as a young child. It was released in 1963, the year I turned eight. I could understand most of the lyrics (except for the line "at night I make the bars").
It made a strong impression on me obviously, and was the first time I ever heard of "Detroit City." Which was a much different place in 1963 than it is today.
You hardly ever hear about someone being shot/stabbed/beaten before an altercation.
“An armed society is a polite society?”
Don’t carry it anymore but I made a one inch cut at the bottom of my Wrangler jeans watch pocket for my KelTec 32.
How do you like your Keltec P32?
The later ones have actual sights.
Do you find it to be superoir to small .25 and .22 caliber micro-guns?
Fighting over momma’s ashes?
I’ve seen that in episodes of two of the novelas on Telemundo about mafia families in Mexico-funerals and weddings are fairly common settings for shootouts in those series...
Hispanics and Italians seem to retain that volatile Latin temperament-I would have thought this incident involved one or the other if it were in the Southwest and not Detroit. My own family was not above confrontations at wakes/funerals in the past-I remember a couple of really epic peleas familiares from my childhood-no shootings happened, however. We have been Tejanos for over 200 years, but the temper, venganza, etc remains...
Don’t be quick to judge based on ethnicity-those of Latin ancestry can be quick to fight over an inheritance, etc as well...
Detroit in 1950 was the fifth-largest city in the county (not far behind L.A. which was #4), with three times the population it has now. It’s now #29.
Everybody got shot.
The brothers didn’t want anyone to feel left out.
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