A man died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at about 2 p.m. Wednesday in a residence on Court Street in Genoa Township as deputies from the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office arrived to serve him with an involuntary mental health commitment order issued by the Livingston County 44th Circuit Court.
As deputies approached the residence in the Brighton Village mobile home community, they heard gunfire from inside. Deputies took cover and requested additional patrol units to assist. Negotiators from the Sheriff’s Office tried to contact the man, believed to be in a mental health crisis. After several hours of unsuccessful attempts to contact him, deputies and officers from other local jurisdictions breached a window, allowing Hamburg Township firefighters to fly a drone inside.
The drone found the man inside the residence with a self-inflicted gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene by Livingston County EMS. The scene was then turned over to the Livingston County Detective Bureau and the Medical Examiner’s Office for processing.
2|42 Community Church provided food and shelter to community members displaced by the incident, and served as a family reunification site for children who were unable to be dropped off at their homes by school buses because of the incident.
Deputies were assisted at the scene by personnel from the City of Brighton Police Department, Hamburg Township Police Department, Green Oak Township Police Department, Michigan State Police, Hamburg Township Fire Department, and Livingston County EMS.
This incident remains under investigation by the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office Detective Bureau.
