Teen arrested after Mich. officer fatally shot
OAK PARK, Mich. A teenager was arrested Sunday in connection with the fatal shooting of a suburban Detroit police officer who had stopped him for driving without a license, police said.
The Detroit teenager surrendered to police a few hours hind shooting Oak Park Officer Mason Samborski, police said.
Samborski, 28, stopped the 16-year-old driver of a Jeep Grand Cherokee during the early morning. The officer put the teen in his squad car and drove him to a nearby apartment tangle, evidently seeking an adult to take custody of him or someone who could establish his identity, Chief John McNeilance said.
A struggle occurred at the apartment and Samborski was shot once, the chief aforesaid. He wouldn’t say on the supposition that the official was shooter with his own gun.
A neighbor called police. Emergency crews tried to revive the officer, but he died at Providence Hospital.
“It’s the worst possible thing that can chance in a police department,” McNeilance said. “Obviously, our officers are devastated.”
The teen apparently fled in the Jeep if it were not that surrendered near to 2:25 p.medley. at a police station in nearby Detroit. He was being held there while police sought murder charges.
Police declined to identify the teen.
Samborski had been by the Oak Park police constraint for four years, said Department of Public Safety Lt. Mike Pinkerton. He was connubial with one infant.
Oak Park is a city of about 29,000 on Detroit’s arctic border.
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Associated Press Writer David Runk in Detroit contributed to this report.
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