MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) - A 35-year-old man suspected of stealing a safe was shot by police in suburban Detroit as he rammed his vehicle into a marked squad car.
The man was shot about 2 a.m. Thursday outside a motel north of Detroit in Madison Heights, police said.
He was listed in critical condition at a hospital.
Officers had been watching the man at the motel, which is near the Warren city limits, police said.
He was under surveillance when a safe was taken about 1:15 a.m. Thursday from a restaurant northwest of Detroit in Auburn Hills, Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer said.
Officers followed the man’s vehicle back to the motel where he was shot as he drove toward them and struck the police car, Dwyer said.
Dwyer said it was a “justifiable shooting.”
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