DETROIT (WWJ) – A man is in custody after jumping out of a second-story window while fleeing Michigan State Police late Tuesday night on Detroit's west side.
It all unfolded around 11 p.m. when MSP received a call from a concerned driver who believed a man was trying to break into a disabled vehicle on the right shoulder of the southbound Southfield Freeway near Plymouth Road.
The caller also told police a second vehicle was involved.
When a canine unit showed up on-scene, they saw two empty vehicles on the shoulder, one of which had a pistol sitting on the front seat.
While the trooper was investigating the vehicles, a man came walking down the embankment and said he got locked out of his car. He also admitted that the blue car is his girlfriend's and the gun was hers as well.
But at some point while talking with police, the suspect "decided he wanted to run from the scene," MSP officials said. He then darted across the southbound lanes, jumped the median walls, ran across the northbound lanes and up the embankment.
Officials say K9 Koma and his partner picked up the suspect's scent and tracked it to an abandoned house on Archdale Street. After announcing their presence and entering the abandoned house, the man then proceeded to jump out of the second-story window and flee on foot again, according to MSP.
Assisting Detroit police units were able to chase him down and bring him into custody.
The man, whose name and age have not been released, was taken to a local hospital, where he was treated and released before being taken to the Detroit Detention Center.
While officials say the case is pending prosecutor review, it was not immediately clear what charges he may face or what prompted the man to flee police in the first place.
