Flint police report city’s first homicide of 2021 on New Year’s Day
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
Posted Jan 01, 2021
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FLINT, MI Michigan State Police and the Flint Police Department are reporting the city of Flint’s first homicide of the year.
At roughly 9 a.m. Friday, Flint police responded to reports of a man slumped over the driver’s seat of a vehicle at the 700 block of West Dewey Street. Officers found a man in his 30s suffering from several gunshot wounds, who was then pronounced dead at the scene.
The city of Flint experienced a spike in violent crime in 2020. Flint hired a new police chief in 2020. Terence Green was sworn in Sept. 3, outside Flint City Hall.