Chief: Suspect In Officer's Slaying 'Very Target Specific'
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit's police chief says a gunman who fatally shot one officer and wounded another was trying "to bait" them as they searched a home for him.
Chief Craig gives an update regarding the officer involved shooting incident.
Posted by Detroit Police Department on Thursday, November 21, 2019
Chief James Craig said Thursday that the 28-year-old man waited at the bottom of basement stairs, fired two shots from an assault-type rifle and ran past the fallen officers. Other officers shot him in the arm outside the home. He was arrested a block away.
Craig said the gunman was "very target specific" and "knew what he planned to do."
Officer Rasheen McClain was shot in the neck and died. Officer Phillippe Batoum-Bisse is being treated for a leg wound.
We mourn the loss of Officer Rasheen McClain, 16-year veteran of the Detroit Police Department, killed in the line of duty on November 20, 2019. "A natural leader and a hero." - Detroit Police Chief James Craig
Posted by Detroit Police Department on Thursday, November 21, 2019
The shooting happened Wednesday evening as officers responded to a report of a man with a gun who was looking for an estranged girlfriend.
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