1 dead, 3 wounded in Detroit shooting

Robert Allen
Gannett Michigan
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Neighbors Shantrice Riley, left, Kentneeta Keith and Antonio Williams clean blood off the walkway Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, after four people were shot in front of his house on Detroit's northeast side.

Four people were shot, including an 18-year-old woman who was killed, Wednesday night during a drive-by shooting outside a house on Detroit's northeast side, police said.

Aundrea Garland, 18, of Detroit died after the shooting that occurred at about 11 p.m. on the 16600 block of Edmore Drive, near Eastland Center, according the Detroit Police Department.

An 18-year-old man is in critical condition, and two other men, 19 and 20, are in temporary serious condition, police said in a news release.

The four were standing in front of the house when the shots came from a red Saturn with four people in it that had pulled up on the street. A high-powered weapon was used, police said.

It sounded like an "automatic shotgun" to neighbor Andre Green, 58.

"Usually, you just hear one shot, 'boom,' " he said. "I heard, like, it had to be about 20 shots, and they all sounded like shotguns."

Antonio Williams, 34, was in his upstairs bedroom asleep when shoots woke him up. He went outside and saw the 18-year-old woman laying in the next, door neighbor's yard.

He brought towels outside to try to stem the bleeding before paramedics arrived.

"She wanted to stand up," he said, adding that she was breathless. Then she began to fade.

"It was almost like she knew," he said, adding that she said, " 'Tell my mother I love her.' Oh, my God."

He said there was a hole in her leg so large "you could maybe put your fist in it."

She'd been staying with his family about a week and a friend of his step-daughter, who was the only person outside the house who wasn't hit.

"It's just been heartbreaking," Williams said, adding that he feels responsibility for the woman even though it wasn't his fault or hers. "That's what's bothering me more than anything."

Aundrea Garland, 18, was shot and killed on Detroit's northeast side on Wednesday night, Aug. 27, 2014. Three other people were wounded in the incident.

This morning, thick blood stains could be seen on the walkway leading up to the home's porch, which was covered in broken glass from the storm door. Bullet holes could be seen on the door and nearby bricks as well as on a folding chair on the sidewalk in front of the house. An athletic shoe with blood stains on it also was in the yard, among other blood stains on the grass.

Williams said he has no idea why the four were targeted.

He also said he found bullet casings on the driveway.

His family has been at the house nearly three years, and he said it's generally a peaceful neighborhood, near the edge of the suburbs of Eastpointe and Harper Woods.

Children often play outside, he said.

"It's still Detroit," he said. "It's one of the better parts of Detroit ... decent neighborhood."

Detroit police Sgt. Michael Woody said police aren't ruling out a possible connection between this shooting and one earlier Wednesday at nearby Eastland mall.

Like Williams, Woody said it's unusual for such a violent crime here.

"Typically this is a quiet neighborhood," Woody said.

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