4 dead in Detroit shootings: Police search for suspect

UPDATE: George Anthony Davis Jr. shot himself at an Ohio gas station, police say. Read more here.

Police are seeking a suspect in connection with shootings that left four people dead on Monday morning in Detroit's west side.

At approximately 9 a.m., Commander Jacqueline Pritchett of the Detroit Police Department said George Anthony Davis Jr. came to a Sunoco gas station on Fenkell and Beaverland where he killed three victims.

Pritchett said Davis was having a conversation with a woman in a silver Dodge Journey when he exited his own vehicle, pulled a handgun from his waistband and fired into the Dodge Journey, killing both the front seat and rear seat passenger — two women in their 20s and one of whom was the mother of Davis's child.

A man in his late 40s or early 50s, who was at the station pumping gas, was also fatally shot, Pritchett said. Davis then reloaded, and fired more shots at both the passengers in the Dodge Journey and at the male victim on the ground.

Daira Bond, 24 of Detroit, lives nearby the Sunoco gas station and called the situation a tragedy.

"It's a lot of people that go here with they kids, that shop here, that play they lottery, and now it's like, it's messed up," she said. "Nobody wanna come here anymore."

Police believe Davis left the gas station in a silver four-door Ford Fusion, Pritchett said, and went to a house on Faust St. where he got into an argument with his adult, male cousin.

Pritchett said Davis shot and killed his cousin, whose age is currently unknown, left behind the silver vehicle and escaped in a 2007 blue Nissan Altima.

David McCullul, 66, who lives on Faust Street, said he came up to the Rite Aid on Fenkell to get a newspaper when he spotted the police cars and caution tape.

"This is the first time they ever had something like this happen here in this neighborhood, and I've been here for about seven years," McCullul said.

The investigation remains ongoing, and Pritchett said they do not know why he killed these victims or his current location, but Davis's mother has been in contact with him and has asked him to turn himself in.

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"Just let people know, if you see something, say something so we can do something," Pritchett said.

According to the Michigan Department of Corrections, Davis, 27, is a parolee whose supervision began in October of 2016 and was set to end October 2018, after he was sentenced to 6 months to 15 years for second-degree home invasion in 2008.

Contact reporter Aleanna Siacon at ASiacon@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter: @AleannaSiacon