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Surge in shooting violence causes DPD chief to send cases to federal court
Detroit Police Chief James White said he intends to forward gun violence cases to the US Attorney for federal charges.
DETROIT (FOX 2) - The Detroit Police Department said a suspect who was upset about his neighbor blocking his driveway shot 8 people, killing 2 of them early Sunday morning.
Detroit Police confirmed a second victim died Monday morning, more than a day after someone shot into a crowd in a Detroit neighborhood on the city's west side.
An anonymous neighbor said the shooter came out of his house and started shooting across the street, firing close to 30 or 40 rounds. The number of shots fired by the shooter was not confirmed by police.
Of the 8 people, 2 were killed and several of the other 6 were critically wounded.
The fatal shooting victims were identified as Andre Willis Jr. and Toyake Thirkield. Willis was a father of two, and Thirkield leaves behind three children and a husband.
Andre Williams Jr. and Toyake Thirkield
The neighbor said the shooting around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday turned Coyle and Plymouth into a war zone.
"We had to call police and tell them what was going on and they were hearing it as we were talking to them," the neighbor said.
So what prompted the shooting? A parking problem.
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Detroit man had stockpile of weapons, shot from second floor after parking argument, police said
Detroit Police said a man who killed 2 people and injured 6 others after an argument over a parking spot had a stockpile of guns and shot a long gun from the second floor of his home into a crowd of people in the middle of the night.
According to police, the shooter was mad about someone who was blocking his driveway. FOX 2 learned he, at first, fired into the air before he went inside the house and came back out to fire more shots.
"They weren't bothering him they didn't knock on his door or throw anything on his grass nothing," the neighbor said.
The shooting was one of several that Detroit Police were investigating over the weekend. One of which was near Lawrence and 14th Street and ended with the death of a teenage boy around 6:30 Sunday night.
Detroit Police Capt. Rebecca McKay said witnesses reported hearing 4 shots from the car before the driver sped away.
Police Chief James White is expected to release more information later in the day on Monday when he addresses this weekend's violent outbursts.