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No need to protect yourself thats what we have Police for right.
Maybe if the ambulance personel had been armed things could have turned out differently.
http://www.freep.com/news/locway/shoot7e_20050607.htm
Teen, bleeding on stretcher, shot dead in Detroit
Youth wounded, later finished off
June 7, 2005
BY AMBER HUNT MARTIN and BEN SCHMITT
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS
He lay on a stretcher racked with bullets and screaming for help. Then the masked man returned with a bigger gun to finish the job.
As paramedics frantically stripped 17-year-old Billie Rutledge to find the first series of bullet wounds and try to save his life, the man, now armed with a shotgun, walked up to the driveway on Omira in northern Detroit. He ordered paramedics to step aside.
With that, he leveled the shotgun at Rutledge, as the paramedics fled, and blasted the teen early Saturday morning in the top of the head.
Police are investigating whether Rutledge was killed because he knew too much or was connected to a March 12 slaying in Detroit.
"We've heard that he was involved in a previous crime with another individual that is know
n to us," Detroit police spokesman James Tate said Monday of Rutledge. "But there is no official information yet to lead us to confirm that."
Tate said police have a warrant for a 29-year-old Detroit man in connection with the March slaying of Shadad Yousif, the 45-year-old owner of Thomas Auto Repair, also on Omira.
Lemuel Rutledge, 15, identified the 29-year-old as the man he thinks killed his brother, Billie, on Saturday. The Free Press is withholding the suspect's name because he has not been charged in connection with Billie Rutledge's killing.
Lemuel Rutledge said the man is known in the neighborhood as both a drug dealer and a hit man. Detroit police have listed him as one of the city's most wanted.
As for Billie Rutledge's alleged role in the Yousif killing, Lemuel Rutledge said: "I believe he drove the car or he knew about it. ... Police caught up with him and asked him some questions" about the shooting of the auto repair shop owner.
Saturday's gunman "thought Billie was going to rat on him," he added.
Billie Rutledge reportedly was released from jail on Friday after serving time for a misdemeanor conviction. He was sleeping at a friend's house on Omira, near State Fair, when an acquaintance woke him up and asked him to go for a walk.
Lemuel Rutledge, who met with police Sunday to help in the investigation, said his brother and the acquaintance walked up the street together.
But his brother was nervous and stopped to talk to a woman sitting on her front porch, Lemuel Rutledge said investigators told him.
"He told her he felt he was being set up for something," Lemuel Rutledge said Monday of what police told him. "She said, 'If you feel like you're being set up, you need to leave the neighborhood then and go home.' "
Five minutes later, shots rang out.
According to police reports, EMS arrived about 3:30 a.m. and found Billie Rutledge lying in a driveway, bleeding from small-caliber bullet wounds and yelling, "Help me! Help me!"
Paramedics put him on a stretcher and snipped off his clothing to find the gunshot wounds. The paramedics, James Peyton and Toby Hanna, then heard the sound of a shotgun racking as they carried the stretcher to an ambulance.
That's when they turned and saw the gunman.
"Watch out, watch out," the gunman said, causing Peyton and Hanna to flee.
The two ran about 12 feet before they heard two shots, the report states. They were not injured and were on optional stress leave on Monday.
"The medics are doing fine," said Chief Gary Kelly of the EMS division of the Detroit Fire Department.
When police arrived, Billie Rutledge was nude with shotgun blasts to his head and left shoulder. Police also recovered shell casings and three shells from a small handgun in a nearby driveway.
Because the gunman wore a ski mask, no witnesses were able to provide identification other than an approximate height of 6 feet.
Anyone with information on Saturday's slaying is asked to call Detroit Police at 313-596-2260 anytime.
Maybe if the ambulance personel had been armed things could have turned out differently.
http://www.freep.com/news/locway/shoot7e_20050607.htm
Teen, bleeding on stretcher, shot dead in Detroit
Youth wounded, later finished off
June 7, 2005
BY AMBER HUNT MARTIN and BEN SCHMITT
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS
He lay on a stretcher racked with bullets and screaming for help. Then the masked man returned with a bigger gun to finish the job.
As paramedics frantically stripped 17-year-old Billie Rutledge to find the first series of bullet wounds and try to save his life, the man, now armed with a shotgun, walked up to the driveway on Omira in northern Detroit. He ordered paramedics to step aside.
With that, he leveled the shotgun at Rutledge, as the paramedics fled, and blasted the teen early Saturday morning in the top of the head.
Police are investigating whether Rutledge was killed because he knew too much or was connected to a March 12 slaying in Detroit.
"We've heard that he was involved in a previous crime with another individual that is know
n to us," Detroit police spokesman James Tate said Monday of Rutledge. "But there is no official information yet to lead us to confirm that."
Tate said police have a warrant for a 29-year-old Detroit man in connection with the March slaying of Shadad Yousif, the 45-year-old owner of Thomas Auto Repair, also on Omira.
Lemuel Rutledge, 15, identified the 29-year-old as the man he thinks killed his brother, Billie, on Saturday. The Free Press is withholding the suspect's name because he has not been charged in connection with Billie Rutledge's killing.
Lemuel Rutledge said the man is known in the neighborhood as both a drug dealer and a hit man. Detroit police have listed him as one of the city's most wanted.
As for Billie Rutledge's alleged role in the Yousif killing, Lemuel Rutledge said: "I believe he drove the car or he knew about it. ... Police caught up with him and asked him some questions" about the shooting of the auto repair shop owner.
Saturday's gunman "thought Billie was going to rat on him," he added.
Billie Rutledge reportedly was released from jail on Friday after serving time for a misdemeanor conviction. He was sleeping at a friend's house on Omira, near State Fair, when an acquaintance woke him up and asked him to go for a walk.
Lemuel Rutledge, who met with police Sunday to help in the investigation, said his brother and the acquaintance walked up the street together.
But his brother was nervous and stopped to talk to a woman sitting on her front porch, Lemuel Rutledge said investigators told him.
"He told her he felt he was being set up for something," Lemuel Rutledge said Monday of what police told him. "She said, 'If you feel like you're being set up, you need to leave the neighborhood then and go home.' "
Five minutes later, shots rang out.
According to police reports, EMS arrived about 3:30 a.m. and found Billie Rutledge lying in a driveway, bleeding from small-caliber bullet wounds and yelling, "Help me! Help me!"
Paramedics put him on a stretcher and snipped off his clothing to find the gunshot wounds. The paramedics, James Peyton and Toby Hanna, then heard the sound of a shotgun racking as they carried the stretcher to an ambulance.
That's when they turned and saw the gunman.
"Watch out, watch out," the gunman said, causing Peyton and Hanna to flee.
The two ran about 12 feet before they heard two shots, the report states. They were not injured and were on optional stress leave on Monday.
"The medics are doing fine," said Chief Gary Kelly of the EMS division of the Detroit Fire Department.
When police arrived, Billie Rutledge was nude with shotgun blasts to his head and left shoulder. Police also recovered shell casings and three shells from a small handgun in a nearby driveway.
Because the gunman wore a ski mask, no witnesses were able to provide identification other than an approximate height of 6 feet.
Anyone with information on Saturday's slaying is asked to call Detroit Police at 313-596-2260 anytime.
