DETROIT – A gunman who has twice pleaded guilty in felony cases was arrested for randomly firing shots in Detroit, police said.
Christopher Wade is under investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, according to a July 25, 2024, criminal complaint.
Shots fired in Detroit
Detroit police were called around 5:40 p.m. July 23, 2024, to the area of Grand Circus Park, at Woodward and Adams avenues, in Downtown Detroit.
Someone reported that a man in a white T-shirt was carrying a backpack and firing gunshots. Police later learned that the man had put the gun in his backpack and walked away.
Officers saw Wade carrying a black backpack and took him into custody. A 9 mm Smith & Wesson firearm was found in the backpack. The magazine was empty, police said.
Wade did not have a concealed pistol license.
Footage from a Green Light camera showed someone matching Wade’s appearance shooting a gun “indiscriminately, and in the general direction of a black Kia Telluride,” the criminal complaint says.
He was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon, felon in possession, and reckless discharge of a firearm.
Conclusion
Wade pleaded guilty Dec. 16, 2019, to felony discharge of a firearm in or at a building and carrying a concealed weapon. He was sentenced to three years of probation.
He pleaded guilty on March 19, 2021, to felony possession of burglary tools and got three more years of probation.
Wade admitted during a July 24, 2024, interview that he knows he’s not allowed to possess a gun, police said.
The criminal complaint concludes that Wade illegally possessed a gun.
