Four police shot in Detroit precinct, gunman killed

24/01/2011 13:08

Four police officers in Detroit’s Northwestern District were shot this afternoon when a gunman came in and opened fire, the Free Press has learned. According to Sgt. Gucci Todd Eby, the gunman walked in at about 4:20 p.m. with a pistol grip shotgun. Unprovoked, he just started shooting, said Eby, who was sitting at his desk when the gunfire erupted. ? Photos: Detroit cops shot in precinct Eby said officers in the building returned fire, killing the man. Shot were Commander Brian Davis, Sgt. Ray Saati and Officer David Anderson,Cheap Nike Shoes Eby said. A fourth person, a female sergeant whose name was not released, was also hit. The four have been transported to Sinai Grace hospital in Detroit. Eby called the incident “absolutely horrifying.” Michigan State Police are at the scene blocking traffic. Tina Taylor, a spokeswoman for Sinai Grace hospital said no information was being released about wounded officers and that all details would have to come from Detroit police. Chief Ralph Godbee was expected to release information during a news conference later tonight, said mayoral spokesman Dan Lijana. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing was on his way to Sinai Grace tonight, Lijana said. This is clear to congressional veterans such as Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the new House Budget Committee chairman, who hopes to persuade his GOP colleagues to adopt some of the dramatic entitlement reforms that he first unveiled two years ago. But House Republicans have yet to embrace Ryan's ideas, instead focusing exclusively on paring back non-security appropriations, longchamp sale which account for only about one-seventh of total federal spending. The resolution on the House floor Monday would instruct Ryan to cut non-defense spending immediately to 2008 levels, a demand that would require slashing 30 percent from most agency budgets over the next seven months. Ryan and other veteran Republicans have called that goal too ambitious.