(WWJ) Warren Police are searching for a gunman following the murder of a Roseville woman, shot to death in a car at the Hoover Eleven Shopping Center.
The 43-year-old woman was waiting in the parking lot to pick up her daughter from work at about 2:30 a.m. Monday when she was "shot viciously in the back," according to Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer.
The daughter came outside and found her mother dead.
Dwyer said it's the first homicide of the year. "In every homicide that we've had in the last two years, they've been cleared through arrest and they've all been between people who were related or acquainted," he said.
In this case, however, Dwyer said the motive for murder could be robbery.
As the investigation continues, Warren detectives are looking at security camera footage from various stores in the shopping center.
"We're canvassing all the businesses for any videos that will be helpful in identifying the person responsible, or persons I should say," Dwyer told WWJ's Charlie Langton "But right now we believe that it's one lone black male, light-skinned wearing dark clothes. That's the description that we have so far."
Dwyer — who called this both a tragedy and a senseless killing— said his department will use all of its resources to solve the case.
"We are going to arrest this person, and we're going to arrest him within this next 24 hours," Dwyer said. "So, you might wanna give yourself up right now, because the Warren police are coming. And when we come we arrest and we convict."