GROSSE POINTE FARMS (WWJ)—A suspect is in custody in connection to an armed robbery at a grocery store in Grosse Pointe Farms on Thursday (February 15) that prompted the lockdown of a nearby school.
Grosse Pointe Farms Department of Public Safety said their officers and the Eastern Wayne County Special Response Team found and arrested the suspect at a vacant home in Detroit on Sunday morning (February 18).
Two days earlier, police put out an urgent alert to the public that they were actively looking for an armed suspect in a robbery at Village Food Market at Mack and McKinley.
Police said the suspect, in an Amazon vest, entered the market around 7:40 a.m. Friday and committed retail fraud. When an employee confronted him about it, the suspect brandished what appeared to be a handgun.
The suspect, deemed by police as armed and dangerous, ran away from the store.
Brownell Middle School, located less than a mile away from the market, was placed on lockdown.
Police did not release any further information on the suspect, including the location of the vacant home where they found him.
The case remains under investigation.