Kid from Bangladesh comes with family to US for a better life — then turns batshit crazy. Probably would have died by train or electrocution anyway...
WARREN, (April 16, 2024) — Graphic police body camera video was released of an officer-involved shooting that left an 18-year-old armed suspect dead Friday, April 12, 2024.
Warren police held a press briefing Monday showing an armed man running out of a garage and pulling out a 9 mm Glock pistol, pointing it at officers before they opened fire.
The suspect was identified as 18-year-old Hussain Al Raji. He and his family came to the US from Bangladesh nearly a decade ago. He was a high school student who was attending online classes.
The suspect was believed to be suffering from a mental health crisis. Investigators say he had no previous criminal record other than a few traffic stops, and had bought his gun legally from a private individual.
Video shows one officer began to enter the open garage, then turn and run back to his cruiser after seeing the suspect with his gun. After getting to his vehicle the officer says "Gun gun gun" over the radio.
After running out from around a bush outside his family's house in the area of Ryan Road and 11 Mile, he can be seen "taking an aggressive stance" toward officers.
Eleven shots were fired by two officers with three rounds hitting the suspect. The 18-year-old did not fire on the officers.
"Once the suspect was on the ground our officers immediately began life-saving measures including CPR," Rushton said, adding that officers revived the victim three separate times before Warren Fire arrived at the scene within three minutes. "Again, I want to point out as the video shows this entire incident from the first time they saw the suspect with a firearm in his hand to the volley of gunshots from the police officers is approximately seven seconds."
The 911 dispatch recordings were played with a family member saying that his brother was "going crazy" and "assaulting everyone in the house." He added that he believed that his brother had not slept in four to five days.
"He probably didn’t even know they were police or anything like that, he just needed help," said his sister Sunjida Rysa."
Rushton said the four officers involved are on paid administrative leave. Their status will be determined after an investigation is conducted, Rushton said.
"Both of those officers have been with the police department I believe, one approximately three years," he said. "The other one approximately 16 or 17 years. And the third officer the one that you can see being chased out of the garage (prior to the shooting) is approximately three years."
The gun was legally registered to the victim, police said. Although the age to purchase a firearm is 21, the buyer can be 18 if purchasing it from a private seller.
