Name withheld by police

How they died

Suicide

Police said they received a report at around 10 a.m. of an armed robbery that had just occurred in the area of Catalpa Drive and Buckingham Avenue. Hazel Park officers reportedly stopped a Dodge Durango with dark tinted windows near Russell Street and Eight Mile in Detroit with an American flag hanging upside down. A witness said police told the driver through a loudpeaker to roll down the window, put his hands out, and to throw his ID out the window. The witness said he then heard what sounded like a small-caliber gunshot. The driver didn't exit the SUV and a standoff ensued. According to the witness, police "couldn't see through the windows and about a half hour later they threw rocks to break out the back window. I gave them a brick to throw." Police reportedly shattered the back window of the SUV with a rock to find the man dead inside.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Name withheld by police, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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