Highland county press update#

The suspect has previous drug and assault convictions, he was a felon and was not allowed to possess, own or carry a firearm. She reported the firearm missing two weeks before the attack. The weapon used in the shooting has been recovered, it was a pistol that was registered to his wife. Police had previously been called to their home on complaints of family trouble, larceny, domestic violence, and malicious destruction of property.

Highland county press update#

The suspect and his wife were residents of Dearborn Heights. Local Head Start program is currently accepting applications for the 2023-2024 school year HHS FIRE UPDATE AS OF MAY 23, 2023: What to. The suspect’s mother-in-law, 70, and the suspect’s wife, 37, are being treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. The father-in-law has been identified as a 69-year-old man, he died at the scene. The three children were not injured.īecause the suspect, his wife and the children at the home share the same surname officials have decided to not release their names. Investigators believe the suspect shot and killed his father-in-law in a bedroom, shot his mother-in-law in the same bedroom and then shot his wife upstairs. He refused the orders and officers shot him. Deputies told the suspect to drop “everything” as it was unclear what he was hitting his wife with.

Investigators said he was on top of his wife striking her. We rush in and listen for stimulus - meaning screams or gunfire,” Bouchard said.ĭeputies followed the sound of screaming upstairs and found the suspect on a second-floor balcony. “We don’t contain and we haven’t contained for a long time. When deputies arrived, they heard screaming and gunfire and rushed into the home. The first call to 911 came in at 8:33 a.m. For the prior three years, the District refused to treat her as female for all. Bouchard said the calls were “disjointed” because the girl was not familiar with the address of the home and the calls got disconnected more than once. Jane Doe was an 11-year-old transgender girl in the Highland Local Schools. One of the children, an 8-year-old girl, also made calls to 911. His wife, mother-in-law, father-in-law, two children and another child - a cousin - were in the home when the suspect smashed through the glass door. Officials said the suspect’s wife and two children had moved in with her parents while she took steps toward divorcing the suspect. The condo belonged to the suspect’s in-laws. Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said the suspect, a 42-year-old Dearborn Heights man, smashed through a sliding glass door and broke into the condo. The shooting happened on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at a condominium on Delmar Court in Highland Township. – Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies rushed into a Highland Township condo and killed a man who had killed his father-in-law, shot his mother-in-law and was assaulting his wife, officials said.