>> Announcer: LIVE FROM
DOWNTOWN DETROIT, HOME OF
WDIV AND CLICK ON DETROIT,
LOCAL 4 NEWS AT NOON STARTS
NOW.
>>> ANOTHER SHOOTING AT A
METRO DETROIT FREEWAY.
COMING UP HEAR FROM THE
VICTIM WHO WAS ABLE TO KEEP
DRIVING.
>>> AND FORMER REPUBLICAN
GOVERNOR RICK SNYDER GOING
AGAINST HIS PARTY.
WE’LL TELL YOU WHY HE SAYS
HE’S VOTING FOR JOE BIDEN.
WE DO BEGIN WITH BREAKING
NEWS.
WAYNE COUNTY IS IN MOURNING.
THE SHERIFF’S DEPUTY
CORPORAL WAS KILLED IN AN
ATTACK AT THE COUNTY JAIL.
THAT CORPORAL WAS ASSAULTED
BY AN INMATE AT THE JAIL IN
DOWNTOWN DETROIT LAST NIGHT
AND WAS RUSHED TO THE
HOSPITAL.
BUT THAT’S WHERE HE DIED.
HE’S CORPORAL RYAN SEARCY
JUST 50 YEARS OFLD.
HE LEAVES BEHIND A WIFE AND
A DAUGHTER.
LOCAL 4’S SHAWN LEY JOINS US
NOW THIS AFTERNOON.
THE SHERIFF JUST SPOKE IN
A VERY EMOTIONAL NEWS
CONFERENCE, SHAWN.
THERE’S AN INVESTIGATION
UNDERWAY INTO HOW THIS ALL
HAPPENED?
>> Reporter: TWO
INVESTIGATIONS.
D.P.D. THEY HAVE A HOMICIDE
INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY AND
AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION
HERE IN WAYNE COUNTY INTO
WHAT WENT WRONG WHEN
CORPORAL BRIAN SEARCY YOU
SEE HERE, AND EVROD YOU SAID,
A FATHER, A HUSBAND, AND A
JUST BELOVED MEMBER OF HIS
CHURCH, COMMUNITY AND THE
WAYNE COUNTY SHERIFF’S
DEPARTMENT.
HE WAS CHECKING CELL DOORS
LAST NIGHT DURING LOCKDOWN
AND SOMETHING WENT
DRASTICALLY WRONG AND HE WAS
ATTACKED.
HERE’S WHAT WE’RE LEARNING
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED INSIDE
THAT JAIL LAST NIGHT.
>> Reporter: IT HAPPENED
HERE AT THE WAYNE COUNTY
JAIL DIVISION 2 BUILDING
DOWNTOWN 10:00 LAST NIGHT.
THE JAIL GOES INTO ITS
TYPICAL NIGHT LOCKDOWN.
INSIDE INMATES ARE TO RETURN
TO THEIR CELLS OLD STYLE
JAIL DOORS ARE CLOSED,
LOCKED AND CHECKED BY A
DEPUTY.
CORPORAL SEARCY WAS GOING
CELL TO CELL CHECKING LOOKS.
THE CELL DOOR TO AN INMATE
WAS LOCKED BUT IT WAS NOT.
THAT INMATE OPENED THE DOOR
AND ATTACKED CORPORAL
SEARCY.
>> THERE WAS A STRUGGLE.
AT THE END OF THE
STRUGGLE HE LOST WE BELIEVE
HE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS.
HE WAS ULTIMATELY CONVEYED
TO DETROIT RECEIVING
HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS
PRONOUNCED DEAD.
>> Reporter: THE SHERIFF WAYNE COUNTY EXECUTIVE
WAYNE COUNTY EXECUTIVE
WARREN EVANS, FAMILY MEMBERS,
AND FELLOW DEPUTIES AT
RECEIVING LAST NIGHT WAITING
FOR WORD.
THEY GOT WORD THAT CORPORAL
SEARCY DID NOT MAKE IT.
TRULY ROCKING THIS
DEPARTMENT THAT HAS HAD A
VERY ROUGH TIME SINCE
COVID-19 HAD HIT.
MUCH MORE, EVROD, COMING UP
TONIGHT AS THE COMMUNITY
REACTS TO THIS DEATH, AS THE
SHERIFF AND COUNTY MEMBERS
EXECUTIVES REACT TO THIS
DEATH.
I CAN TELL YOU JUST PEOPLE
ARE VERY SHAKEN UP BY.
THIS HE WAS VERY WELL LOVED. BACK TO YOU.
BACK TO YOU.
>> IT IS SUCH A TRAGEDY AND
OUR HEARTS ARE OF COURSE
GOING OUT TO WAYNE COUNTY
SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT DEALING
WITH THIS LOSS AS WELL AS
SEARCY’S FAMILY.
SHAWN, THANK YOU FOR THE
UPDATE THERE.
>>> NOW TO A LOCAL 4 NEWS
UPDATE.
CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP MAN IS
FACING MURDER CHARGES IN A
CRASH THAT KILLED A
10-YEAR-OLD GIRL.
WARREN POLICE SAY THAT
16-YEAR-OLD TIMOTHY AUTO
WENT THROUGH A RED LIGHT AT
10 MILE AND RYAN IN JULY AND
CRASHED HIS TRUCK INTO A CAR
THAT WAS DRIVEN BY
10-YEAR-OLD’S MOTHER.
HE WAS CARRYING A BACKHOE
ON A TRAILER AND THAT FELL
ONTO THE GIRL’S CAR AND IT
KILLED HER.
AUTO IS NOW FACING SECOND
DEGREE MURDERER,
MANSLAUGHTER, AND RECKLESS
DRIVING CHARGES.
HE’S EXPECTED TO TURN
HIMSELF INTO POLICE
TOMORROW.
>>> HE SAID IT’S A CASE OF
ROAD RAGE.
WE ARE HEARING FROM A DRIVER
THAT WAS SHOT AT THIS
MORNING.
THIS HAPPENED OVERNIGHT.
IT HAD THE FREEWAY CLOSED
FOR A GOOD PART OF THE
MORNING COMMUTE.
AS LOCAL 4’S GRANT HERMES
REPORTS THE VICTIM SAYS HE
WAS JUST ON HIS WAY TO WORK.
>> Reporter: THE SHOOTING
HAPPENED AFTER WHAT THE
VICTIM IS DESCRIBING AS A
ROAD RAGE INCIDENT.
A YOU FLURRY OF BULLETS IN
THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE
INVESTIGATING YET ANOTHER
FREEWAY SHOOTING THIS SUMMER.
THIS TIME IT WAS NEAR 94 AND
TELEGRAPH IN TAYLOR.
JUST BEFORE 4:00 IN THE
MORNING.
THE VICTIM VAUGHAN TELLING
LOCAL 4 THE SHOOTER WAS
DRIVING ERRATICALLY,
SPEEDING UP AND SLOWING DOWN.
VAUGHAN SAYS THEY PASSED
EACH OTHER ON THE ROAD
SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE HE
MOVED IN FRONT OF THE
SHOOTER AS HE WAS DRIVING TO WORK.
>> I GUESS HE DIDN’T LIKE
THAT.
A YOU CASE OF ROAD RAGE
HAPPENED.
>> Reporter: VAUGHAN SAYS
THAT’S WHEN THE DRIVER OF
WHAT MICHIGAN STATE POLICE
BELIEVE IS A WHITE PONTIAC
BEGAN FOLLOWING VAUGHAN
BEFORE OPENING FIRE.
VAUGHAN GUESSES FIVE TO
SEVEN SHOTS.
ONE OF THOSE HITTING HIS CAR
RIGHT THROUGH THE
WINDSHIELD. THAT CASE OF ROAD RAGE
THAT CASE OF ROAD RAGE
SHUTTING DOWN I-94 JUST AS
MORNING TRAFFIC STARTED TO
PICK UP.
>> IT’S VERY CLOSE.
ESPECIALLY WHERE MICHIGAN
STATE POLICE SAID THAT IT
SHOULD HAVE BEEN, THAT WAS
VERY CLOSE.
SO I’M LUCKY TO EVEN BE
ALIVE TODAY.
>> Reporter: THE SHOOTING IS
ONE OF MORE THAN A DOZEN SO
FAR THIS SUMMER THAT HAVE
SHAKEN DRIVERS.
VAUGHAN SAYS HE’S KEPT
DRIVING TO WORK ANOTHER DAY.
>> A LITTLE SHOOKEN UP.
>> Reporter: THANKFULLY
VAUGHAN WASN’T HURT.
HE WAS ABLE TO CALL 911
WHILE HE WAS STILL DRIVING
TO WORK.
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE SAY
THE INVESTIGATION INTO HOW
THIS SHOOTING HAPPENED AND
WHO THAT SHOOTER IS IS STILL
ONGOING.
IN STAY LORE, GRANT HERMES,
LOCAL 4.
>>> WE DO WANT TO KEEP I
UPDATED ON OUR FORECAST ON
THIS WHAT THIRD DAY OF
SEPTEMBER, BRANDON AS WE
INCH CLOSER AND CLOSER TO
THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND. >> YES, AND IT WILL BE THE
>> YES, AND IT WILL BE THE
WARMEST DAY OF THE WEEK PAST
AND PRESENT.
COULD BE THE WARMEST DAY
THAT WE SEE FOR A LITTLE
WHILE AS WE GET INTO THE
MIDDLE UPPER 80s.
A LITTLE BIT OF TROUBLE
THAT WE ARE TRACKING AS WE
LOOK LIVE FROM THE PENOBSCOT
BUILDING TOWARD COMERICA
PARK, FORD FIELD.
BOY, THAT SKY LOOKS NICE.
JUST A COUPLE OF CLOUDS.
79° WE’VE GOT A SOUTH WREST
WIND AT 16 -- SOUTHWEST WIND
AT 16.
WE DO HAVE HUM ONLY AT 50%.
SO HUMIDITY NOT A BIG DEAL.
WINDS AT TIMES ARE GUSTING
20 TO 30.
IT’S A 28 MILES PER HOUR
GUST IN PONTIAC.
THESE AREN’T VIOLENT STORM
WINDS JUST A LITTLE GUSTY,
AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE
AFTERNOON.
TEMPS AGAIN HEADING INTO THE
MIDDLE 80s.
A COUPLE MORE CLOUDS COMING
AND GOING YOU THROUGH THE
LATER AFTERNOON.
BY 4:00 P.M., COULD SEE SOME
SHOWERS AND STORMS FORMING
IN OUR NORTH ZONE UNDER A
MARGINAL RISK FOR SEVERE
WEATHER.
WE’LL TIME IT OUT A
LITTLE CLOSER SEE IF MAYBE
YOU CAN GET IN ON A SHOWER
LATER TONIGHT AND THE UPS
AND DOWNS OF OUR HOLIDAY
WEEKEND AHEAD.
>> BRANDON, THANK YOU VERY
MUCH.
WE’LL BE CHECKING IN WITH
HIM AGAIN SHORTLY.
RIGHT NOW WE WANT GET TO
DECISION 2020.
RICK SNIGHTDER ANNOUNCED HIS
SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRAT JOE
BIDEN -- RICK SNYDER SPO
ANNOUNCED HIS SUPPORT FOR
DEMOCRAT JOE BIDEN.
WE MUST ELECT JOE BIDEN IN
NOVEMBER SO THAT WE CAN BEAT
BE ARDUOUS BUT ESSENTIAL
PROCESS WHERE WE CAN BEGIN
THE ARDUOUS BUT ESSENTIAL
PROCESS OF HEALING AMERICA
AND PUTTING AMERICA BACK ON
A POSITIVE PATH WHERE
CIVILITY AND WORKING
TOGETHER HELP US ACHIEVE
GREAT THINGS.
HE WENT ONTO CALL PRESIDENT
TRUMP A BULLY LACKING A
MORAL COMPAS, IN RESPONSE
THE CHAIRWOMAN OF THE
MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN PARTY
CALLED SNYDER
MR. IRRELEVANT.
SAYING THAT VOTERS DON’T
CARE WHO SNYDER SUPPORTS.
MEANWHILE TODAY IS BEING
CALLED BATTLEGROUND YOU
THURSDAY IN THE PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION.
BOTH JOE BIDEN AND PRESIDENT
TRUMP ARE VISITING KEY SWING
STATES TODAY.
BIDEN WILL BE IN KENOSHA,
WISCONSIN WHERE HE WILL BE
MEETING WITH JACOB BLAKE’S
FAMILY.
HE WAS THE MAN WHO WAS SHOT
BY POLICE AND IS NOW
PARALYZED FROM THE WAIST
DOWN.
THAT SHOOTING THEN SPARKED
PROTESTS THROUGHOUT THE
CITY.
PRESIDENT TRUMP DID VISIT
KEN OSHA, WISCONSIN THIS
WEEK HIMSELF BUT HE DID NOT
MEET WITH BLAKE’S FAMILY.
HE WILL BE TAKING HIS LAW
AND ORDER MESSAGE TO
PENNSYLVANIA TODAY.
>>> TODAY THE DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE GAVE AN YOU UPDATE
ON OPERATION LEGEND THE MOVE
TO BRING FEDERAL AGENTS TO
DETROIT.
THE FEDS SAY THAT 41
DEFENDANTS HAVE BEEN CHARGED
WITH FEDERAL OFFENSES.
17 FOR DRUGS, 21 FOR GUNS
AND THREE OTHERS HAVE BEEN
CHARGED WITH OTHER VIOLENT
CRIMES.
>>> FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE
PAYING THEIR FINAL RESPECTS NOW TO FORMER STATE
NOW TO FORMER STATE
REPRESENTATIVE ALWORTH.
-- STALLWORTH.
THE FUNERAL SERVICE IS
HAPPENING HERE IN DOWNTOWN
DETROIT JUST OFF JEFFERSON.
STALLWORTH SERVED IN THE
MICHIGAN HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES FROM 1970 TO
YOU 2004.
SHE DIED AFTER A BATTLE --
TO 2020 THE YEAR OF THE ROAD
TRIP.
97% OF TRAVELERS SAID THEY
WENT BY CAR THIS SUMMER.
COMING UP TIPS FROM AAA ON
HOW TO MAXIMIZE THE LABOR
DAY.
FIRST NEW INSITES FROM