Detroit police find dead man after ShotSpotter alert

DETROIT (FOX 2) - Detroit police followed a ShotSpotter alert to a murder scene Wednesday morning.

Police responded to the alert around 7:45 a.m. and found a man's body near Trix Academy. At least 20 evidence markers were placed at the shell casings area of Joann Avenue and Fairmount Drive near 8 Mile and Schoenherr.

"Woke up, made my morning coffee. I heard six shots. I'm surprised. I dropped my cup of coffee and everything. So, I go to look outside, hear another two shots, step back. I drop to the ground, look outside. It's foggy, you can't see nobody," neighbor Chris Ford said. "It was disturbing. There's kids around here, man, there's kids."

ShotSpotter was key to finding the scene, police said because no 911 calls were made about the shooting.

Investigators spent the morning trying to see if any neighbors had doorbell camera footage as they search for a suspect.

Alton James, the mission support director at the nearby campus which includes the school, St. Vincent Dupaul, and a church, said that if school had been in session, teachers would have been inside the building, with students on the way.

"They utilize these classrooms, and bullets don't have names," he said. "The violence has to stop. We gotta do something about these guns."