DETROIT — Sunday marks the end of what has sadly been an extremely violent weekend in downtown Detroit.
Detroit Police confirm there have been 5 shootings downtown between Friday and Saturday, 4 of them taking place Saturday night.
Former Assistant Detroit Police Chief Steve Dolunt said, "It's a huge deal! White must be losing his mind because he’s doing everything you’re supposed to do. They’re doing everything right. Let’s get the curfew in place, let’s have increased police presence."
Within an hour of Detroit Police announcing they would be enforcing a weekend curfew, the first of the four shootings on Saturday happened.
According to police at 8:05 p.m. an adult male was fatally shot at a Greektown party store over some sort of fight over someone cutting in line.
The male and female suspects are in custody.
"We need to have the talk about common sense, don’t carry a weapon, turn the other cheek as they say in the bible, don’t pull a gun," said Dolunt. "Walk away, it’s not worth losing your life for."
Police say the second shooting, a double shooting, happened at 9:11 p.m. on the river-walk by the Renaissance Center.
An adult male and female were shot with non life threatening injuries.
One male is in custody in connection to the shooting.
Residents across Detroit expressed their frustration to us this weekend.
Denise from Detroit told us she lost a son and nephew to gun violence, "and I think it’s disgusting. This generation just out here like wild wild west and it got worse when you’re able to buy a gun."
The third shooting happened in the Greektown area again, police say it was around 11:00 p.m. at Monroe and Randolph.
An adult male was shot and transported to a hospital in serious condition.
The two suspects were arrested and two weapons recovered.
The fourth Saturday shooting, according to police, happened at about 11:30 p.m. at Larned and Randolph.
The victim was an adult male and was taken to a local hospital in serious condition, the suspect is unknown.
As all of this was happening DPD was also enforcing the weekend curfew for minors for the first time this year.
There was a heavy police presence throughout all of downtown and video shows what appears to be minors detained in the Campus Martius area after curfew.
Dolunt said, "I saw all the kids lined up for curfew violations, so the question is, where are the parents?'"
A final attempt to control the madness DPD asked MSP to shut down 375 and Jefferson for a short period of time.
Something Dolunt said is very rare but necessary with this much violence in our city.
