Dearborn police are deferring to Michigan state police and state police are releasing little information about the fatal shooting of a man who was allegedly carrying a loaded rifle while walking in Dearborn Heights Sunday, May 13.

"We have nothing new" to release at this time, State Police First Lt. Mike Shaw said when asked Monday whether footage of the shooting, specifically dashcam video, existed.

The Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office identified the man who was killed as 38-year-old Jim Collins Jr. from Redford.

Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office spokeswoman Lisa Croff said a formal cause and manner of death was still pending.

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State police were responding to a report of a distraught woman in the area of Telegraph and West Warren. While they never located the woman -- they did later spot her while reviewing surveillance footage from the area -- a responding officer spotted a man walking with a rifle near Boneyard BBQ.

"As the officer made contact with the individual, there were some words exchanged back and forth and the officer fired shots at the suspect, hitting him and killing him" Shaw said.

The Dearborn Heights Police Department contacted state police to conduct the third-party homicide investigation. The findings will be presented to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office for review of any possible criminal wrongdoing.

MLive attempted to reach Dearborn Heights Police Chief Lee Gavin for comment, left a voicemail and is awaiting response.

While unusual to see, it is legal to openly carry firearms in Michigan.

"He wasn't contacted because of the open carry law," Shaw told MLive. "So that's a myth."

Shaw said the man was contacted because he was "acting strangely out there."

Shaw declined to discuss specifics of the resulting exchange between the man and Dearborn Heights police or answer a question about what led the officer to fire.

James Baker, a Detroit-area open-carry activist who's conducted marches with firearms on display in order to educate the public about their Second Amendment rights, says he doesn't know the man involved in this case.

Baker said people in the open-carry advocacy community are themselves trying to figure out what happened and determine how the man's decision to openly carry a rifle contributed to the shooting.

This was one of two fatal police-involved shootings in Detroit this weekend.

The other involved a 20-year-old Cody Reynolds of Royal Oak, who was shot and killed by a Royal Oak police officer about 3 a.m. Monday, May 14.

Police were looking for the man in connection with a domestic disturbance. Police said the man assault his father with a guitar and stabbed his mother.

When police responded and located the man walking in the area, Royal Oak Police Chief Corrigan O'Donohue said the man charged an officer, who opened fire.

This is also the second officer-involved shooting in Royal Oak in the last month.

An officer fatally shot Antonino T. Gordon shortly after 6 p.m. April 11 in the drive-thru of the White Castle fast food restaurant near 13 Mile and Shenandoah in Royal Oak.

Police said Gordon fled a traffic stop a short time before his death, but haven't said why he was shot.