Day Care Shooting in Detroit

[hear_my_name]

Day care tragedy takes twist: Head trauma killed girl

Case puzzles police; suspect, motive for shootings unknown
September 30, 2004

While searching for a motive in Tuesday's shooting rampage at a home day care, Detroit police became even more baffled Wednesday after learning 3-year-old Stefanie Belue died of head trauma and was not shot.

Police and doctors originally believed Stefanie was shot to death after a gunman barged into Little Tots Day Care in northwest Detroit and shot two women, both of whom survived.

"We understood it to be a gunshot wound, but the medical examiner is the authority," said Kelly Scheer, spokeswoman for Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit.

An autopsy report released Wednesday still determined her death to be a homicide, however, but police were unsure how she sustained the head injury.

The new information left a traumatized family even more upset.

"In our wildest dreams, we would never imagine something like this happening to her at day care," Stefanie's godmother, Andrea Hakeem, said Wednesday. "I could not imagine what this person could be thinking and what could have driven him to do something this horrible."

Police continued their search Wednesday for a suspect. Officers had no new leads or motives to report, but maintained that they don't believe the crimes to be random. Police said they were questioning Stefanie's father Wednesday night.

"We've had officers working very hard out there, round the clock, following up on tips," said Detroit Police Cmdr. Craig Schwartz, who heads the criminal investigations bureau.

Around 10 a.m. Tuesday, a man knocked on the door of the home day care, owned by 41-year-old Annette Rice, and said: "Is this the day care center?" according to police.

He then walked inside and began shooting with a .45-caliber handgun, police said. Rice and her niece, Sherita Griggs, 22, were shot several times. Griggs' 4-month-old son, Amari, fell from his mother's arms and hit his head, police said.

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[Jibgolly]

wtf?
this world isnt gonna make it to the year 3000.
no possible chance at this rate.
we're self-destructing incredibly fast.

[tiddles]

our world sucks

[Civic_Zen]

wtf?
this world isnt gonna make it to the year 3000.
no possible chance at this rate.
we're self-destructing incredibly fast.

See, I always wonder where people get such ideas, perhaps you can enlighten me?? The world is constantly evolving, and murder among other things is constantly getting less and less common. We are making continuing progress as human beings, all you need to do is look through history.

Regardless, this is a tragedy. Shame shame shame on some people.

[picklemonkey]

that's fucking horrible!

I'd never expect to see shooting in an elementary school... and I'd DEFINITELY never expect it in a day care! What the hell do these people think when they do this shit? I guess the positive side of the story is that the two women lived, if you want to look at it positively somehow.

[Jibgolly]

wtf?
this world isnt gonna make it to the year 3000.
no possible chance at this rate.
we're self-destructing incredibly fast.

See, I always wonder where people get such ideas, perhaps you can enlighten me?? The world is constantly evolving, and murder among other things is constantly getting less and less common. We are making continuing progress as human beings, all you need to do is look through history.

Regardless, this is a tragedy. Shame shame shame on some people.

yeah, we're evolving.
everybody is killing everybody.
kids are now murderers too.
there are good things in this world, but the media focuses on all the bad and this leads me to believe the world is destructing.
when was the last time you turned on the local (or national for that matter) news and heard two good stories in a row?
a long time.

[skahound]

See, I always wonder where people get such ideas, perhaps you can enlighten me?? The world is constantly evolving, and murder among other things is constantly getting less and less common. We are making continuing progress as human beings, all you need to do is look through history.

Maybe, and I can't speak for Jib, but perhaps he was just illustrating a point. I don't think he really believes we won't make it to 3000. Not that any of us will ever know since most of us will be dead some time before the year 2100. As for history there have been several well established civilizations which cease to exist anymore; who is to say ours won't be next? None of us can be 100% sure.

[san]

Re: Day Care Shooting in Detroit

ugh that is so horrible. makes me sick.

[Civic_Zen]

there are good things in this world, but the media focuses on all the bad and this leads me to believe the world is destructing.
when was the last time you turned on the local (or national for that matter) news and heard two good stories in a row?
a long time.

Thats exactly right though, its your perception of the world given to you by the media. This is why I don't really watch the news, I read it. That way I can pick and choose what I hear and tend to only read the headlines, or maybe the first paragraph, of stories like this.

I don't want to read about the latest 15 yo that was kidnapped, raped, and murdered. Or about some crack fiend that randomly breaks into day care center's to get his rocks off. Or whatever the hell is going on.

I personally think the Japanese have the human psyche figured out. Their culture is filled with violence, some of the most violent films I could imagine, and rape turns more men on in Japan then any other form of masochism. And yet they can go home after visiting the whore house, to their wife and kids, and flip on the news without hearing about any of those same things.

Sorry I know I'm drifting off on a tangent here and blabbering on and on. I just honestly believe that things like 'GTA: Vice City' is an outlet for the human psyche, which is quite simply violent by nature.

Maybe if this asshole would have bought a PS2 and got down to some mobster action, this wouldn't have happened. Still such a tragic event, and yet these forensic specialist have no clues as to how it happened?? They need to hop to it.

And yet, once/if they do find the culprit, you probably wont read about it in the news because it is less important then the next tragic incident. That, in my mind, is the problem with the world today.

[ekm]

Re: Day Care Shooting in Detroit

There are a lot of good things happening in Detroit, but then something like this happens and renforces everyones belief that Detroit is a dangerous sh*t hole. We are setting new records this year for number of murders. We are not going to be able to rebuild the city and attract people to live here with crazy MFs running around shooting kids.

[hear_my_name]

Re: Day Care Shooting in Detroit

i know that there is sumthing totally differnt in detroit.. i live all of five mins away and when i cross over that birdge i just feel a lil differnt.. nervous scared. i dont know.. im never usually like that when i go ne where else i know detroit has put out alot of great things.. but hearing about gangs and knowing sumone very close tell me stories of how someone shot his friend becuse she was standin next to him TAKING A PICTURE ... it just proves that detroit is a crazy place to live.. id be walking down Woodward and id be scared to look at anyone becuase they might do sumthing.. maybe its just me being ignorant or just prejudice.. but still there is sumthing about that city that makes me feel real uncomfortable

[asdf_admin]

sad. truly sad. on top of it ... in Iraq a bunch of kiddies got killed.

makes me sick.

[msanchez]

Re: Day Care Shooting in Detroit

Kudos to the gunman..although he shoulda shot the baby.

[runningman]

leave it to Detroit to do shit like that.. It's weird because i live 2 min from detroit and none of that shit goes on here.. that place sucks!!

[Morgan]

Maybe if this asshole would have bought a PS2 and got down to some mobster action, this wouldn't have happened. Still such a tragic event, and yet these forensic specialist have no clues as to how it happened?? They need to hop to it.

And yet, once/if they do find the culprit, you probably wont read about it in the news because it is less important then the next tragic incident. That, in my mind, is the problem with the world today.

A tragic event, how it can happen in a "civilised" country is beyond me.

However, i would expect the gun used was legally held, as is the case in the majority of shootings.

In the UK a madman went on a rampage with a handgun killing 16 primary school children (5-9 years old). 3 months later the UK banned all hanguns.

After Columbine and now this, is it not time that the USA reconsiders it?s attitude to gun ownership? Or will the PhAnToM MeNaCe have his way and everyone carrys a .45 on their hip?