SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WXYZ) — Southfield police are investigating a shooting that left two men dead and a woman injured. The two men shot and killed each other, according to investigators.
The incident happened on Christmas around 9:36 p.m. at the Riverstone Apartments on Shiawassee Road.
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Police said, according to witnesses, it stemmed from an argument earlier in the day when a man assaulted his girlfriend and the left the apartment.
Investigators said the woman then called a female friend to come over. That friend was accompanied by a male acquaintance.
When the suspect came back, things escalated.
"He beating on the door. He come. Beating on the door, beating on the door. Nobody answers the door," Donnell Hill tells 7 News Detroit.
Hill, who lives downstairs, said he and his girlfriend heard everything. Investigators said the boyfriend barged his way in and retrieved a gun inside the unit.
“Next thing I know, I hear multiple gun shots. Gunshots, gunshots," he recalled.
Police said the suspect and the other man exchanged gunfire. A 30-year-old man from Detroit and a 20-year-old man from Madison Heights shot and killed each other.
The suspect's 23-year-old girlfriend, who was also shot, ran down to Hill’s apartment for help.
Hill said, “She sitting in our floor bleeding with her thumb hanging off. So, I ran back there, wrapped her up (and) held it until the police came. And that was that. While she was laying there she cried out to me talking bout some ‘da baby, da baby.”
Amid the chaos, police said the suspect’s three-year-old son was there and witnessed the violent incident. Hill said he helped watched the child until the police and the child's mother arrived.
“Should have never happened. That s*** could have been handled a whole different way," Hill said.
The Southfield Police Department said they plan to have a press conference on Monday.
