{"id":106299,"date":"2024-07-08T00:03:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T00:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/2-killed-19-injured-in-detroit-block-party-shooting-police\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T00:03:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T00:03:41","slug":"2-killed-19-injured-in-detroit-block-party-shooting-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/2-killed-19-injured-in-detroit-block-party-shooting-police\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed, 19 injured in Detroit block party shooting: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-07\/GettyImages_CrimeScene_070724.jpg\" alt><figcaption>kali9\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(DETROIT) &#8212; At least two people were killed and 19 others were injured when gunfire erupted early Sunday morning at a block party in Detroit, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting unfolded at approximately 2:25 a.m. during a block party on the city&#8217;s east side near Wish Egan Field in the Mohican Regent neighborhood, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State Police confirmed on X that two fatalities occurred and 19 others were injured in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>State police officials said they are assisting the Detroit Police Department in the investigation through its joint Homicide Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>No suspects were in custody Sunday afternoon, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the shooting, including motive, were not immediately released by officials.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone with information about the shooting to call Crime Stoppers or contact Detroit police detectives.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s incident follows several recent shootings that have occurred at block parties.<\/p>\n<p>On June 15, an 18-year-old girl was killed and five other people were injured, including a 14-year-old girl, at a block party on the east side of Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>On June 1, four people were shot, two critically, at a late-night party outside a north Detroit home. Eight guns and 93 shell casings were recovered at the crime scene. Two of the weapons were found to be stolen, including the one equipped with a Glock switch, a small device that turns semiautomatic Glock handguns into fully-automatic weapons, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A Detroit Police Department spokesperson said Sunday afternoon that police Chief James White and Mayor Mike Duggan will hold a news conference on Monday to update the community on the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DPD will be implementing a comprehensive new strategy regarding block parties and will provide full details tomorrow at a briefing with the chief and the mayor,&#8221; the police spokesperson told ABC affiliate station WXYZ in Detroit on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kali9\/Getty Images (DETROIT) &#8212; At least two people were killed and 19 others were injured when gunfire erupted early Sunday morning at a block party in Detroit, according to police. The shooting unfolded at approximately 2:25 a.m. during a block party on the city&#8217;s east side near Wish Egan Field<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/2-killed-19-injured-in-detroit-block-party-shooting-police\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}