SOUTHFIELD (WWJ) -- Police officers have shot and killed a man after he allegedly opened fire on two people — killing his ex-girlfriend in a jealous rage outside a Southfield hotel.
According to Southfield Police Chief Elvin Barren, the initial shooting happened at around 9 a.m. Monday at the Detroit Marriott Southfield on Northwestern Highway.
A preliminary investigation found that the suspect tracked down his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend to the hotel. After confronting them the parking lot, the man pulled out an "assault rifle" and shot both of them, Barren said.
The 41-year-old Detroit woman died at the scene.
The boyfriend, also a 41-year-old Detroit resident, was taken to a local hospital where he was listed in critical condition.
Chief Barren said the 49-year-old gunman then fled in a dark-colored vehicle, but was eventually tracked down 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.
At this point, the names of those involved are not being released.
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