Suspect fatally shot by Detroit police on city's east side after opening fire at officers

DETROIT (FOX 2) - Detroit police are at the scene of a fatal officer-involved shooting on the city's east side Tuesday.

The suspect pulled a gun and fired at Detroit police who returned fire and fatally wounded him, DPD said. The shooting took place at Chandler Park Drive and Canyon Street sometime after 7 p.m. 

Assistant DPD Chief Charles Fitzgerald said that the officers were on patrol when they recognized someone from a previous drug deal encounter, a white male in his 30s.

Officers ran his name and saw that he had a prior violation. At that time, before officers got out of their car, Fitzgerald said he pulled a gun from his waistband and fired shots at the officers.

Bullets struck the passenger side of their scout car, one of the officers returned fire - killing the man - who died at the scene.
 

The officers are both uninjured. The one who fired shots will be put on leave per protocol in these situations.

"He has a lengthy criminal history too much to list at this time," Fitzgerald said. "(Investigators will) come out and scale the scene, get all the evidence, pull all the casings, take as many statements as we can, there were a lot of folks out here."