U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)-– Shortly after midnight, in the early morning of December 13, 2022, the owner of a 2022 Dodge Charger Hellcat was parking the vehicle in a driveway in Eastpoint, Michigan, a part of the Detroit metroplex. He was approached by more than one suspect in an apparent carjacking attempt.
From Eastpoint Police and Fire Department:
On December 13, 2022, at approximately 12:30 am, Eastpointe Police Officers were dispatched to the area of the 23 thousand block of Hayes on an attempt carjacking and shots fired complaint. The suspects approached the victim while he was parking his vehicle (2022 Dodge Charger Hellcat) in the driveway. During the attempted robbery, the suspects and victim exchanged gunfire. The victim was a CPL holder. The suspects then fled in a stolen Chevy Impala.
Shortly after the exchange of gun fire, it was reported that a male, who was later identified as one of the suspects, had checked himself into a nearby hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg. As Eastpointe Detectives were in route to the hospital, the suspect had fled.
After an exhaustive investigation, Eastpointe Detectives and Eastpointe Special Investigation Unit teamed up with the Detroit Police Organized Crime Unit and tracked the stolen Impala to Clinton Township. Eastpointe Detectives worked with Clinton Township Police and located the stolen vehicle. The suspect later exited a residence and entered the vehicle. After a brief vehicle pursuit, the suspect was arrested without incident.
Search warrants were executed at the residence and the stolen vehicle. Evidence of the crime was recovered. We are still working on locating the second suspect. We want to personally thank our Detroit Police and Clinton Twp. Police neighbors for their assistance.
ARRESTED
Damon Lamar Currie, 27 years old
CHARGES
Assault with intent to murder
Felony firearm
Bond was set at $750,000 with GPS tether-Currie was arraigned at the 38th District Court in Eastpointe.
Some of the comments on the Eastpointe Police and Fire Department site were illuminating:
Thank you for catching yet another thug, here trying to ruin our neighborhood! These people need to learn that our police officers don’t take too kindly to crimes of any sort and you will get caught ! Smarten up and learn to be a good human being…the world needs more of that !
Yo smooths, you might not be the master criminal you think you are. Perhaps you could should find another racket like actually working for a living like the rest of us.
When armed victims wound suspects, the police have a much easier job of finding and arresting them.
About Dean Weingarten:
Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of Constitutional Carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.
I’ll take criminal race for $500 Alex. “Must of been one of those poor stereotyped thugs.”
Growing up in Southern Indiana as a youngster I used to travel with my family to Detroit, actually Royal Oak, where my Aunt Mary and family lived. I cannot remember much about them except Aunt Mary gave me some Cracker Barrel Sharp Cheddar Cheese and I thought I died and had gone to Heaven, never tasted cheese that tasted so good before, going across the Mackinac Bridge, catching damned Striped Turtles instead of fish out of Lake Michigan and hearing stories about a special police unit Detroit employed during the late ‘60’s, the time period I was visiting. Crime was… Read more »
The prosecutor will plead it down to Agg. Assault and drop the felony firearms possession charge. All in the name of Criminal Justice Reform. damon will be back on the streets in less the 3 years.
Karma’s a bitch and the carjacker is getting his late Christmas present!
I know Mr. Currie through my previous employment. MDOCOTIS is a great tool for looking up convicted offenders in Michigan. He’s got a rap sheet as long as your arm. Numerous offenders have been released during the pandemic without parole supervision. That’s right, released. Discharged. Bye, bye. Some, years before the completion of their sentence. Lifers, too. One of them shot up a van on the street in Detroit and killed a baby. It was a case of mistaken identity, too. A government that doesn’t protect its citizens or borders is an illegitimate government. Any arguments?
”When armed victims wound suspects, the police have a much easier job finding and arresting them.” That job is easier when wounds are severe enough to prevent flight and befall each of the perps. Unfortunately this may leave cops time to focus on defender and be jealous of his “good luck” (aka superior skills). Typically shooting one makes the rest flee, at which point defender loses legal justification to keep shooting. If the injured perp dies, they may provide less assistance tracking down the others – so maybe poor shooting isn’t such a bad thing. Of course if one shoots… Read more »
Not to fear, the new Illinois “no cash bail” will insure the poor, disadvantaged young man will be free soon!
Had to read the entire article. The headline was that the victim was arrested.
Somemaker.anship trading is in order.
Talk about a long-distance crime; is Eastpoint, (Illynoise) really a part of the Detroit metro area?
Dean, did you mean to write Eastpointe Michigan?