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1 person fatally shot during barricaded gunman situation at Detroit home

Posted at 2:55 PM, Oct 31, 2020
and last updated 2020-10-31 15:19:27-04

DETROIT (WXYZ) — One person was fatally shot during a barricaded gunman situation on Detroit’s east side Friday.

Police responded to a home on the 18600 block of Concord Friday night.

The 42-year-old gunman, believed to have had been suffering from a mental health episode, was holding a woman hostage inside the home.

According to DPD, the gunman was shot once, taken to a hospital but was pronounced dead within an hour of the shooting.

The hostage was safely removed from the home.

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