GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Grand Rapids man has died after sparking a shootout with Arkansas State Police, authorities say.
ASP recognized the suspect as 33-year-old Felipe Millan-Gomez. He was needed in connection to an armed carjacking that occurred Monday in Manistee County.
Based on the Manistee County Sheriff’s Workplace, the carjacking occurred Monday morning in Onekama, a village about 12 miles northeast of Manistee. The suspect allegedly jumped out of an SUV and approached a lady as she acquired into her car in her driveway.
“(He) walked up and entered the passenger side of her vehicle, brandished a handgun and told her to drive,” the sheriff’s workplace mentioned in a information launch. “As she was driving, the woman was able to jump out of the vehicle and flag down a passerby. The male suspect then jumped over the center console and drove off with the woman’s vehicle.”
MCSO mentioned the sufferer knew Millan-Gomez. Investigators instructed the general public to contemplate him armed and harmful and to not strategy him.
At roughly 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, ASP and officers with the U.S. Marshals Service initiated a site visitors cease on eastbound I-40 close to Carlisle, Arkansas — about 30 miles east of Little Rock.
“Millan-Gomez exited his vehicle and brandished a weapon. Troopers fired on the suspect, striking him. Millan-Gomez died at the scene,” ASP mentioned in a press release.
ASP’s Legal Investigation Division is investigating the incident and can submit the case to the Lonoke County Prosecuting Legal professional’s Workplace to find out whether or not deadly power was needed.
