Garden City police release details in fatal shooting in confrontation with DEA
Alonte Damar Murphy was fatally shot Feb. 24
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Alonte Damar Murphy was fatally shot in front of a Garden City home on Feb. 24, 2021. (WDIV)
GARDEN CITY, Mich. – Police released details Saturday night regarding the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man in Garden City.
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According to authorities, the incident began Feb. 24, just after 1:15 a.m. when a person entered the Garden City Police Department and said they had been the victim of domestic violence involving a firearm.
Police said the victim was in fear of their life as Alonte Murphy had continued to threaten them over the telephone.
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Detroit experiences rise in gun violence, domestic abuse during COVID-19 pandemic
By Fox 2 Staff
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in more crime in Detroit.
DETROIT (FOX 2) - Detroit saw a rise in crime, including gun violence and domestic abuse, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Police Chief James Craig and the department’s board of commissioners discussed crime rates during a roundtable Thursday. A focus was on how the pandemic impacted crime and the department’s ability to fight it. At one point during 2020, we were ravaged by COVID, Craig said. We had, at one point, roughly 650 members of our department that were quarantined.
Methamphetamine lands Richmond man 7-year sentence
RICHMOND, Ind. A Richmond man caught twice with methamphetamine has been sentenced to more than seven years of incarceration.
Dustin Dean Brooks, 28, recently pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of methamphetamine, one a Level 3 felony and one a Level 6 felony. The plea agreement he reached with the Wayne County Prosecutor s Office dismissed a habitual offender allegation against Brooks.
As stipulated by the deal, Judge Gregory Horn sentenced Brooks to seven years on the Level 3 felony and to 270 days on the Level 6 felony. Brooks will serve the sentences consecutively because he committed the Level 6 felony while on pretrial release in the Level 3 case.