The monthly roundup debuting here will be a regular feature, providing links to the most compelling Detroit crime stories of the previous month. The selection of a given story or suite of stories is predicated on factors including human interest, longevity, impact, or some intangible that makes it unique to the metro Detroit area.
The stories are also considered collectively to provide a fair cross-section of the previous month's events:.
- Controversy surrounds the shooting death of Luqman A. Abdullah. While FBI agents were warned of possible reprisals, momentum built behind the idea of an independent investigation.
- Owner of abandoned house burned by arson fire charged with murder of fire fighter killed trying to put it out.
- In separate drug busts, police find cocaine in a truck, in plain view on the front seat of a car, and with drug sniffing dogs, They also discover marijuana packaged for sale in a stopped vehicle.
- Murder-suicides occur in two outlying communities.
- A Detroit man executes son following argument.
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