[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Police are responding to an 'active shooting scene' at a hotel in Dearborn, where multiple people have been injured
- The shooting is happening at the Hampton Inn on Michigan Avenue and the active shooter has barricaded themselves inside a hotel room
- Cops said the shooting started when the suspect got into a fight with hotel staff over their bill - but it is unclear if an employee was a victim
- Authorities are urging people to stay away from the scene as police attempt to make 'peaceful' negotiations with the suspect
Shooting suspect surrenders at Dearborn's Hampton Inn, 1 killed, police say
[MSN - DetroitFreePress] Ending a six-hour siege outside a hotel in Dearborn by dozens of police from numerous departments and joined by federal officers as well as Michigan State Police , officers at about 8:30 p.m. Thursday took into custody a gunman whom they said fatally shot a hotel clerk in a dispute over money the man owed for his stay.
Ibrahim Samra, Raneen Houhou, Hiam Beydoun, and Kamal Mustafa all look towards stand near the scene where an active shooter barricaded himself inside the Dearborn Hampton Inn in Dearborn on Oct. 6, 2022.
The incident closed Michigan Avenue in West Dearborn through the afternoon rush hour, and the usually busy artery remained closed Thursday night.
Dearborn police said the man, 38, had a history not only of drug abuse and gun involvement but also of mental illness. That prompted both the city's police chief and its recently elected mayor to join an increasing call for the nation and Michigan to provide more mental-health treatment for Americans. No officers or hotel guests were injured but the hotel clerk, 55, of Riverview, was “just trying to do his job” when the suspect shot him with a rifle at the outset of the incident around 2 p.m., Dearborn police Chief Issa Shahin said.
“There was a confrontation over a bill. (The gunman) was upset, asking for a refund,” and the shooting occurred on the 3rd floor, he said. Police arrived after about two minutes, and “when we saw him going up the hallway, he saw us and ducked into his room,” after which the suspect began shouting threats to officers, Shahin said.
Standing beside Shahin was Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, who said it was “about time” that the nation did more to treat mental illness.
Officials declined to identify the victim or the suspect, or to say where the suspect was from. Getting the suspect to surrender took tireless and expert negotiating by the Dearborn police crisis team, Shahin said. The chief had made an appeal through evening TV broadcasts, urging the suspect to turn himself in.
Several members of the suspect's family assisted in the negotiations, including at least one who came to the scene, a police spokesman said earlier. Shahin, a veteran of the department and appointed in December as Dearborn's first Muslim police chief, managed the negotiations and siege of the suspect's hotel room from a command post inside the hotel, the spokesman said.
"We don’t believe he’s a local resident," Dearborn police spokesman Cpl. Dan Bartok said. But he noted that the gunman's relatives, who assisted with the negotiations, "didn’t fly in."
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