SOUTHFIELD (WWJ) - Investigators have released the identity of a 49-year-old man who was fatally shot by officers after he allegedly opened fire on two people -- killing one -- outside a Southfield hotel.
The Southfield Police Department said Kyle Bozeman III of Detroit was responsible for the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend, a 41-year-old Detroit woman, and for injuring her new boyfriend, also a 41-year-old resident of Detroit, around 9 a.m. Monday at the Detroit Marriott Southfield on Northwestern Highway.
The woman died at the scene while the critically injured man was rushed to a local hospital. The identities of both victims were withheld by police "to give the families time to grieve and heal from this tragic incident."
The injured man has since had his condition upgraded to stable, police added.
According to the department, Bozeman had a criminal record that included an armed robbery in Detroit more than 25 years ago.
Southfield Police Chief Elvin Barren said the initial shooting happened at around 9 a.m. after Bozeman tracked down the couple. After confronting them the parking lot, the man pulled out an "assault rifle" and shot both of them, Barren said.
Chief Barren said Bozeman then fled in a dark-colored vehicle, but was eventually located by officers with the Southfield PD's Tactical Suppression Unit.
"We were able to locate that suspect in the city of Detroit," Barren told WWJ's Jon Hewett. "At Seven Mile and the Lodge Service Drive, he (the suspect) did lower the convertible down, and once we tried to box him in he did reach for that assault rifle, and our officers were forced to fatally wound him."
Barren classified the shooting outside the hotel as a domestic violence incident, with jealousy as the motive, Hewett reported.
A spokesman for the Michigan State Police Second District said its Homicide Task Force, made up of MSP and Detroit Police Department detectives, would be handling the ongoing investigation into the officer-involved shooting.