Robert Allen, and Tresa Baldas

Detroit Free Press

A 49-year-old heroin addict from Warren has been arrested as a suspect in the weekend stabbing of interior designer Daniel Clancy at his Grosse Pointe Farms home, police said. A source close to the investigation told the Free Press the suspect was hospitalized Tuesday after overdosing.

Grosse Pointe Farms police Detective Lt. Richard Rosati confirmed today that the suspect is a heroin addict and had cleaned Clancy's gutters.

Clancy, who is in his 60s, was found beaten and with multiple stab wounds to his neck on a sidewalk about 200 feet outside his home on Voltaire Place at about 4 p.m. Sunday.

"Through investigative leads, we tracked him down," Rosati said of the suspect. "It's quite a story."

Rosati said details on the arrest might be released at a news conference. Clancy remains at St. John Hospital in Detroit, where he was admitted in critical condition.

"I saw (Clancy) yesterday in the hospital, and the doctors say he's doing better," Rosati said. "But he is definitely not out of the woods yet. He's in trouble, but he's alive."

He said the incident Sunday began inside the house, and duct tape was involved.

"He escaped somehow," Rosati said.

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