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A 19-year-old gunman “terrorized” Detroit by randomly shooting four people, killing three of them — including a single mom of five who was due to move out of the area in days, officials said Monday.
The terrifying spree started when an unidentified 28-year-old man was gunned down in an “unprovoked” attack just before 5 a.m. Sunday, according to Detroit police.
However, there were no calls to 911 — even after the gunman returned to fire more shots at his first victim, police said.
“At 4:45 on a Sunday morning, not a lot of people are up. Some people might have thought they were hearing firecrackers,” Mayor Mike Duggan said at a press conference Monday.
“I think there’s a strong probability he expected to get caught,” the mayor said, speculating that the lack of police response may have instead emboldened him.
“And then 35 minutes later he shoots and kills a second individual and proceeds from there,” he said, killing “innocent people going about their lives on a Sunday morning.”
That second victim, a black woman in her 40s whom police have yet to be able to identify, was the first attack leading to 911 calls, police said.
As cops swarmed the area, they heard the third victim — later identified by her boss as mom of five Lari Brisco — getting shot dead a few blocks away, police said.
