Allan Lengel

4 days ago | deadlinedetroit.com | Allan Lengel

Virgil Clark Smith, who served in the state House and Senate in Lansing before becoming a Wayne County Circuit Court judge, has died. He was 77. He retired from the bench in 2018. His son, former state Sen. Virgil K. Smith, told Deadline Detroit that his father passed away early Monday morning at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. He said he had been dealing with kidney failure and long-term Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

5 days ago | deadlinedetroit.com | Allan Lengel

A Detroit man died Sunday after drowning in Cass Lake in Keego Harbor in northern Oakland County. The Oakland County Sheriff's Office said its Search and Rescue Team responded to Cass Lake around 4:15 p.m. following a report of a drowning. According to a press release, the 26-year-old man, whose name has not been released, was on a 20-foot boat with four others on Cass Lake. At some point he entered the water, unaware that the boat had drifted into deeper water.

5 days ago | deadlinedetroit.com | Allan Lengel

At least two church security members fatally shot a gunman wearing a tactical vest who stood outside Crosspointe Community Church in Wayne, a suburb in western Wayne County, and opened fire during a special vacation Bible School service Sunday morning. One security staff member was shot and wounded in the leg.

5 days ago | deadlinedetroit.com | Allan Lengel

Mort Crim, the WDIV anchor from 1978 to 1997, posts on Facebook that he still plays tennis three days a week and takes a five-mile bike ride on alternate days. He's 89. "When I’m flying, I always consider the long walks in the terminals to be good exercise," he writes in a post on Sunday.

6 days ago | deadlinedetroit.com | Allan Lengel

Jeremiah Christian Kemp, 20, of Wayne, has been charged in the June 19 shooting and wounding of two Southgate police officers. At around 6 p.m. on June 19, three Southgate police officers responded to the 13200 block of Village Park Drive, where Kemp was reportedly on the second floor with a handgun. The officers confronted him in a laundry room, where he opened fire, striking two of the officers in the legs. The third officer was not injured.