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This list includes notable homicides committed in the U.S. state of Michigan that have a Wikipedia article on the killing, the killer, or the victim. It is divided into three subject areas as follows:
- 1967 Rebellion
- What Happened at The Algiers Motel
- Aftermath
The Detroit Rebellion left 43 people dead and caused hundreds of documented and undocumented injuries. The vast majority of the 7,000 people who were arrested were black. The primary cause of the unrest, according to the 1968 Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, was police brutality against blacks followed by unemployment,...
Hersey, writer Sidney Fine and othershave noted that accounts of the events that led to the deaths of Carl Cooper, Aubrey Pollard and Fred Temple have often been conflicting. But here are the basic facts. In the early hours of July 26, 1967, Detroit police Officers Ronald August, Robert Paille and David Senak responded to a report of civilian snipe...
Officer August was charged with murder after extensive hearings and investigations. His defense counsel Norman Lippittargued that Hersey’s book, which was published only a year after the incident and received extensive news coverage, was “too inflammatory” to allow a fair trial with unprejudiced jurors. The judge agreed and moved the trial to Mason...
- Jeffrey Horner
Aug 5, 2017 · No starter pistol — or gun of any kind — was found at the Algiers, according to numerous contemporary newspaper reports. Cooper was the first to be killed that night, with his body found in a ...
May 11, 2022 · Detroit Under Fire reports that when the Detroit Police Department arrived on the scene, along with members of the National Guard, they fired at least 200 rounds at the house before storming inside. Carl Cooper was the first person shot and killed in the initial rush into the annex.
Aug 4, 2017 · Three police officers and a private security guard were arrested in the slayings at the Algiers Motel and charged with conspiring to deny the civil rights of 10 people by threatening and beating...
On July 26, the fourth day of the Uprising, three white police officers murdered three innocent African American teenagers at the Algiers Motel. The DPD officers were part of a contingent of ten policemen and National Guardsmen who stormed the motel and then brutalized and tortured the interracial group of youth they found inside.
Aug 2, 2024 · Detroit police commissioners are calling for an internal, full-scale investigation of cases handled by a former Detroit detective after Metro Times published a two-part series exposing her...
