Grosse Ile -- An armed Grosse Ile mother of three was shot and killed this morning by police in an apparent suicide-by-cop.
Police received an anonymous call at 3:18 a.m. believed to be from the woman claiming that someone had been shot. When they arrived at the Meridian Road residence on the north end of the island township, they found the 41-year-old woman in her backyard with a shotgun, said Grosse Ile Police Chief Joseph Porcarelli.
"The negotiations began and lasted approximately 30 minutes, with her constantly yelling at the officers for them to shoot her," Porcarelli said.
A team of six officers from Grosse Ile, Riverview, Trenton and Gibraltar were negotiating with the woman when she began walking toward them with her shotgun leveled.
"At that time, the officer felt he had no other choice but to fire on the female to stop the threat posed to him and the other officers," Porcarelli said.
A Gibraltar officer shot the woman once in the right side. She was taken to Oakwood Southshore Medical Center, where she died at 5:30 a.m., Porcarelli said.
The woman, who had recently separated from her husband, had three school-age children who were inside the house at the time of the incident. She left an apparent suicide note apologizing to her husband and family for what she was going to do and giving instructions for her burial.
"It's always sad to see an outcome like this," Porcarelli said. "This was a last resort."
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
