DETROIT (FOX 2) – The mental health crisis knows no boundaries and for the second time in less than a month, Detroit’s first responders are dealing with a tragedy involving one of their own.
TJ Jackson and other neighbors watched as a mental health crisis happened right in front of them on Northlawn near Fenkell on Detroit’s west side on Monday morning. The 48-year-old man was an off-duty EMT and Detroit firefighter.
“Police tried to talk to him and talk him out of it, and it just simply went wrong,” said Jackson. “Once police presence arrived, he came out on the porch with his telephone. He was on the phone taking a phone call from somebody, and he had a gun in the other hand.”…