'Tailgating, drinking, guns — they don't mix,' Detroit Police Chief James White said after a fight near Ford Field turned deadly WXYZ-TV Detroit | Channel 7/YouTube A shooting broke out at a tailgate party after Sunday’s Detroit Lions game that left two people dead and one suspect in custody, Detroit police said. On Sunday, Sept. 15, at about 4:30 p.
m., shots rang out at Eastern Market near Ford Field, where thousands had come to watch the Detroit Lions play and hang out at the popular gathering spot afterward, police said. “What it looks like preliminarily is that people got into it over something that happened here,” Detroit Police Chief James White said at a press conference after the shooting.
“Tailgating, drinking, guns, they don't mix.” The fight broke out at Shed 6 on Riopelle Street in Eastern Market, where fans gather for home games, and dispersed within a few minutes, White said. Shortly after, "They reconvened a few feet away from where the initial fight started,” the chief continued.
“The two fighters put up their hands like they were about to fight each other. One of the people in the fight, a male from Oak Park, pulls out a gun and shoots at least twice.” The person who was going to fight the suspect was fatally shot, White said.
A second victim was shot and rushed to the hospital. That victim died on Monday, Sept. 16, (formerly known as Twitter.
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