Three members of a Michigan family and one of their partners are dead, and a 25-year-old relative is in custody after what police describe as a domestic mass shooting in a Detroit suburb. Livonia officers say they responded to a call around 5:35pm Tuesday and were met by the man walking out of the house with his hands up, saying he had shot family members, ABC News reports. The suspect's parents, 58-year-old Sterling Pierce and 53-year-old Holly Kimball, were found dead in the home's backyard. The bodies of his brother, 22-year-old Tanner Pierce; and Tanner's girlfriend, 21-year-old Nevaeh Finch, were found in a bedroom.
The parents and brothers lived in the house, and Finch frequently stayed there, according to Livonia Police Chief Thomas Goralski. He said there was apparently a "contentious relationship between the suspect and his parents" but investigators are still trying to determine a motive. Next-door-neighbors Charmaine Holmes and Terrell Morris tell the Detroit Free Press that they fled to their basement after hearing 12 to 15 shots. They say the Pierces were "wonderful neighbors," though the suspect had always seemed "standoffish."
Goralski said the suspect has no known criminal history and police had not been called to the home before, CBS News reports. "This is a tragic event for the city," the chief said. Livonia has a population of almost 100,000 and before these killings and a stabbing last month, there hadn't been a murder in the city for almost three years.
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