Romulus police continue to investigate a shooting at the Marriott Hotel July 29 which left one man in critical condition.
According to police reports, officers were called to the Metro Airport hotel in the 30500 block of Flynn Street at 3:47 p.m. following multiple 911 calls reporting a shooting. When officers arrived at the scene, they found the wounded man and called for emergency medical response.
According to reports, two men from Delaware had arranged to meet at the hotel to purchase a large number of cell phones. The potential buyers arranged to meet the sellers in a room at the hotel and once inside the room, the two "sellers" produced handguns in what the witness told police was an apparent robbery attempt. Both the Delaware men claimed they attempted to disarm the assailants.
During the struggle, one man suffered a severe gunshot wound while the other was successful in disarming his attacker. The Delaware men made their way to the hotel lobby where the injured man collapsed. The two attackers fled the scene, witnesses said. Hotel staff members attempted to provide medical aid to the injured man until police arrived.
The victim was transported to a Dearborn hospital where his condition remained critical.
The suspects are described as a black man with short black hair in his early 20s. He was wearing a black Adidas zip-up hoodie, blue/purple Nike sweatpants and black tennis shoes, witnesses told officers and a second black man, also with short black hair and in his early 20s. He was last seen wearing a blue, long-sleeved sweatshirt, jeans with two small tears in the right knee and a large tear in the left knee area. He wore black and white tennis shoes, a purple/blue baseball hat and was carrying a black backpack, witnesses said.
Anyone with any information about the incident is asked to call the Romulus Police Department at (734) 941-8400.
