Breaking news now on 13 on your side.
Check fire shot fired. Off
the top at 6 Breaking News from
Grand Rapids a short time ago.
Police releasing body Cam
video from yesterday's gun
battle on the city's SE side.
Good evening, I'm Kirk Montgomery
and I'm Val.
Lego Juliet is off tonight.
Officers confronted Patrick
Jones yesterday afternoon.
He was wanted for the murder
of a 30 year old woman.
13 undersides Keely Lovern is
joining us now from the Grand
Rapids Police Department with more
on today's developments. Keely.
Yeah, Val Kirk Jones was wanted for
the shooting death of 30 year old
Tamika Wright back on October 11th.
Now yesterday they received a tip
through silent observer that Jones
was at a home near Cass and Division
which is on the city's SE side.
The video released a short time ago
shows Patrick Jones firing at police.
We gotta check ourselves.
I don't know if I've been shot.
I don't know either.
But 17 police officers are OK for now.
Our cruisers and lit up.
Get over here, over here.
Over here, over here. To me. To me.
Get to me. OK, let me check.
Now the shooting happened as
officers approached the scene and as
the video continues, the officers you
can see patting themselves down to
make sure they hadn't been shot and
luckily neither of them were injured.
In a news conference just a few hours ago,
Chief Eric Winstrom said it had
been determined that the gunman,
a 30 year old Patrick Jones,
did take his own life winstrom.
Says this is the second time in just
two weeks that someone has tried to
murder a Grand Rapids police officer.
Somebody that's living in the community,
that might be his neighbor,
might be somebody else.
There's that fear there.
And if that ability to report a
tip like this anonymously gets
them to the point where they,
they'll share that truthful
information so that we can bring
justice to to individuals. Like this?
Who killed this innocent woman?
What? Whatever it takes to get.
Now, per standard protocol,
Michigan State Police will take
over the officer involved shooting
as they always do for any type
of investigation like this.
And the officers that were involved,
we have confirmed,
are on administrative leave
at this time. Keely,
what can you tell us about the victim
of that homicide on October 11?
Yeah. So as I mentioned,
that was 30 year old Tamika Wright
and she was a mother of five.
We spoke to her cousin the other day
and she says that Wright was a wonderful
mother and actually a pharmacy tech.
And police believe she was shot
and killed while she was driving
by Jones back on October 11th.
And her cousin says, right,
and Patrick did have a child together
and she says her cousin Tamika Wright
was a victim of domestic violence.
Let's take a listen.
Tamika was very smart. She was loving.
She was focused on her family,
her kids, to be technical,
just trying to do what she can,
you know, as a single mother for them.
In the last couple weeks before she died,
her cousin says they spoke
on FaceTime every day.
And she did confirm that, right?
Children are now being
taken care of by family.
You can follow this investigation and
yesterday's officer involved shooting.
We have all the details
posted to our website.
Our coverage from yesterday,
including today and that press
conference from Chief Winstrom.
You can watch that video at
13 on yourside.com for now,
reporting live in downtown Grand Rapids.
Keely Lovern, 13 on your side.
Thank you, keely.
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