Driver dead, body in trunk after crash, shootout with Dearborn police
Dearborn — A shootout developed Sunday afternoon near Tireman and Normile between Dearborn police and a suspect under pursuit involving a missing person, Michigan State Police said. The suspect was found dead in the vehicle after a crash and human remains were found in the trunk of the vehicle.
Dearborn officers were attempting to stop a vehicle suspected in an endangered missing person investigation at about 2 p.m. when officers lost sight of the vehicle. The vehicle crashed in Detroit "a short distance away from where the officers lost the suspect ...," MSP said on Twitter.
"As officers approached the crash scene, there was an exchange of gunfire between the officers and the suspect," the tweet said. MSP referred to the incident as "a officer involved shooting."
Officers cleared the crash scene near the Dearborn-Detroit border, where the vehicle appeared to have jumped a curb and crashed into a house. They found the driver dead of a gunshot wound. Police did not identified the suspect. The remains were not identified.
Police said a passenger was taken to a hospital with crash injuries. MSP and the Detroit Police Homicide Task Force were assisting Dearborn police.
Police remained at scene in the neighborhood Sunday evening near Dearborn's border with Detroit.
Police placed a tarp over the rear of the car, and a neighbor said they saw someone taken away on a stretcher.
Dearborn police cars gathered in the area and yellow police tape from Tireman marked the scene.
A neighbor standing among others in the drizzle said she saw a police car chasing a vehicle.
The Dearborn Police Department would not release information and police at the scene would not answer questions.
kberg@detroitnews.com