Deadly Dearborn Crash, Shootout Linked To Missing Mother From TN: Cops

DEARBORN, MI — A deadly Dearborn crash and shootout on Sunday is linked to a missing mother from Tennessee, Michigan State Police said.

Dearborn Police tried stopping a black 2020 Dodge Charger with Tennessee plates near Warren and Greenfield roads Sunday afternoon, police said.

Officers began chasing the car, but eventually lost sight of the car through the neighborhoods, police said.

The car then crashed into a house near Tireman and Normile streets at 2:05 p.m., police said.

Officers then began giving verbal commands as they approached the car, when they heard a single gunshot, police said. Officers immediately returned fire, police said.

When officers reached the car, they found a 36-year-old Dominique Hardwick dead with a gunshot wound to the head and a 34-year-old woman injured from the crash in the passenger seat, police said.

The injured passenger was taken to a nearby hospital, police said.

Officials do not know if the woman was fatally shot by officers or the woman fatally shot herself after finding a 9mm Glock pistol in the car, police said.

Officers also found a dead 31-year-old woman stuffed in the trunk of the car, police said. Detectives identified her as Eleni Kassa, and were still investigating how she was killed.

Kassa was reported missing from Murfreesboro on Nov. 18, after she failed to pick her daughter up from school, according to a missing person's report.