Suspect Arrested in Royal Oak Homicide

Updated at 6:25 p.m.

The suspect in a Monday morning homicide in the 2800 block of Fern Street has been arrested, Royal Oak police said in a statement.

The name of the 28-year-old Madison Heights resident who died of multiple gunshot wounds has not been released, pending the notification of relatives, polic said.

The suspect was arrested in the 6100 block of Henry Ruff early Monday afternoon. Investigators from Royal Oak were assisted by Troy Special Investigations Unit, FBI Violent Crimes Task Force, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Garden City Police Department.

This is still an ongoing investigation and arraignment information is not known at this time.

Anyone with information regarding the case is asked to call Royal Oak Police Lt. David Clemens at (248) 246-3456.

Updated at 2:20 p.m.:

Royal Oak police are searching for a suspect accused of pumping several bullets into a 28-year-old Madison Heights man who died Monday morning in the city’s second homicide of the year, occurring exactly two weeks after its first.

Police are still saying little about the shooting, except that it occurred in the 2800 block of Fern, Royal Oak Police Lt. Dave Clemens told The Daily Tribune.

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An update is planned later Monday afternoon. It’s unclear how the suspect arrived at Beaumont Royal Oak Hospital around 1:30 a.m Monday. He died later.

Residents in the normally quiet neighborhood awoke to heavy police presence, including an armored SWAT vehicle, after hospital personnel notified authorities of the shooting.

Although residents were initially told to stay in their homes, Clemens told The Detroit News residents of the neighborhood can go about their business.

““I apologize for being vague,” Clemens said “Currently, the neighborhood is safe. We don’t believe anybody else is in jeopardy.”

The city’s first homicide of the year occurred on Oct. 12 when Theresa Diamos, 50, was allegedly shot by her boyfriend, David Douglas Davis, 49, who faces open murder and other felony charges.

The lockdown in the neighborhood was expected to be lifted, according to The Daily Tribune report. Most of the officers had left the area by about 7:45 a.m.

A neighbor, Brad Foucher, told The Daily Tribune the house where the shooting is believed to have taken place is “kind of an interesting house — sort of a fun house with a lot of people coming and going all the time.”

Updated at 10:08 a.m.:

The victim in an early morning shooting has died, WDIV-TV reported in a tweet.

This story has been updated.

One person has reportedly been shot and seriously wounded in an ongoing situation in the area of Fern and Linden between 12 and 13 Mile and Main and Rochester in Royal Oak.

Royal Oak Mayor Jim Ellison told WDIV-TV that one person was taken to Beaumont Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds.

Ellison told The Detroit News police were called after the victim showed up at the hospital at about 1:30 a.m.

“It was a man who shot another man, and we still do not have the guy,” Ellison said.

The suspect remains at large.

Police from Ferndale and Berkley are reportedly assisting police in setting up a perimeter of the scene.

WJBK-TV said neighbors were asked to retreat to their basements.

Patch’s earlier report:

Police are not commenting.Police in Royal Oak are on the scene at 12 Mile and Rochester roads with several squad cars and a SWAT vehicle, according to reports on WWJ and WDIV-TV.

Several road are closed off because of the situation, which developed around 5 a.m.

Police aren’t yet releasing any details about what media reports have described as a shooting.

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