Teen girl dead in Detroit drive-by shooting

We begin with breaking news. A drive-by shooting on the city's east side has left a teenage girl dead. We just heard from Detroit police a short time ago. Fox 2's Dave Kinchin joins us live with the latest information tonight. Dave. Rupert, it's 10-01 right now, and at this time, there are family members devastated. There's a neighborhood on edge. I'm going to step out of the way. We'll give you an idea of what's happening right now. 4,700 block of Chalmers is where we are, Detroit's east side. Police on the scene canvassing, looking for clues. We know a 16-year-old girl is dead and a 19-year-old is in the hospital now in the intensive care unit, we understand, with a gunshot wound. We'll go to video. Here's what we know. Police say just before 7 p.m. they were called to the 4700 block of Chalmers between Mack and Warren for gunfire. Chief Todd Bettison. DPD says that there were four people sitting in a Jeep Grand Cherokee when a dark colored sedan drove by and fired several gunshots. A 16-year-old girl was hit more than once. We don't know exactly how many times she was pronounced dead at a hospital. Her family totally grief-stricken beyond words at this point. A 19-year-old man also hit. He's alive but being treated in the intensive care unit. We understand two other people in that Jeep were not hurt. They are considered key witnesses by detectives who are looking to talk with them to figure out how this all happened. Police looking for the shooter and anyone connected to this. Meantime, here's what the chief has to say about keeping an extra eye on this neighborhood. We will identify the individuals that did this. We will keep the community updated. They will see an increase in uniformed officers, an increase in patrol. I will be doing operations. It's just tragic. And to the individuals that did this, just like I said last night when I was at a scene, you probably were there as well, with our 7-year-old that was struck. And that individual, the perpetrator, turned himself in. And so for these, the ones that did this senseless act, this drive-by shooting, firing multiple shots into a vehicle, not even knowing who's in the vehicle, not caring, we've got to throw the book at them. Questions we don't know. Who was the intended target in all of this? Four people in that Jeep when that vehicle came up, that sedan, and fired shots into it. The 16-year-old girl killed a 19-year-old man in the hospital in the intensive care unit. Now, coming up tonight on The Edge, a deeper look at some of those city resources. I actually worked in this area in Philadelphia responding to trauma, a neighborhood traumatized. The police will eventually pull away once they gather evidence, but they're going to send in, the city will send in longer-term resources to deal with the trauma, trauma-informed care. What does that mean? What does it look like as this neighborhood reels with even more gun violence? We'll talk about that tonight at 11 o'clock. We're live on the east side, Dave Kinchin, Fox 2 News. Yeah, Dave, and you're talking about the post-response with the trauma. The preventative measures have been something that the mayor and this police chief have talked a lot about, but it's something that certainly needs to touch more people to make sure this never happens again. Yeah, and it's a data thing. You know, the police chief said tonight, Chief Todd Bettison said they've had one of the safest summers on record. They say, you know, really, tonight has felt like summer. Unfortunately, we tend to see that uptick in violence. during warmer weather, but the chief said they're gonna have to put some of those resources that they put into the summer, maybe spread it out a little bit and treat every time of year like summer. But no doubt, long term trauma response, but also the immediacy of this investigation and a family that's completely devastated tonight for them, they haven't even begun to pick up the pieces. Yeah, it's been a rough three weeks in the city of Detroit with a lot of crime and sadly These faces of these victims are the ones we remember tonight. Dave Kinchin for us live tonight. Dave, thank you.