The shots seem to have been executed “completely at random,” said James White, police chief. A victim “waited for the bus, another was walking his dog and another was simply in the street,” he described.
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Detroit police, in the north of the United States, hired on Sunday, August 28, an important manhunt after four people were targeted “at random” by fire led to the death of three D ‘Between them, the authorities said. James White, police chief of this city in Michigan, told the media that the first three victims (two women and a man) had been shot in various places in the city in the early hours of the morning.
After seeing the suspect scrutinizing the interior of cars, a fourth man asked him to stop before being targeted by a shot, said the policeman. Three of the victims died and one survived, police said at local media. Photographs of the suspect have been disseminated and the authorities called anyone who would recognize it to join the police.
The shots seem to have been executed “completely at random,” said police chief Lor s of a press conference. A victim “was waiting for the bus, another was walking his dog and another was simply on the street,” he described. The mayor of Detroit Mike Duggan declared at a press conference that agents were “raking several square kilometers (…), while waiting for the individual to resurface”. “This man has already pulled out of four people today,” he warned.
The United States is regularly struck by shootings while parliamentarians are reluctant to adopt legislation on the control of firearms, although acclaimed by most Americans.