Robbery Suspect Returning for Shoe Fatally Shot

DETROIT (WJBK) - "It just got to a point were we just had to take action for ourselves. It was just happening too frequently," said Hector Martinez.

There have been too many break-ins way too often at a home on Horatio in southwest Detroit.

"We had break-ins at least three times in the last two months," Martinez said.

Their pit bull was even stolen, but this time, two men allegedly broke into their Chevy Blazer and busted out a rear window about 2:30 Tuesday morning.

Hector Martinez's aunt ran outside and found one man standing there. The other was half way in the truck with his legs sticking out. His aunt knocked on the window.

"I guess that's what scared him off because then my cousin came out and he just started firing," Martinez told FOX 2.

His cousin fired warning shots into the air. The robbery suspects took off, but one man left behind a shoe and an amplifier, and when the men came back to get the shoe, Martinez's cousin fired again.

"We never tried to hurt anybody. We just tried to scare them off," said Martinez. "We just fired off warning shots, and it wasn't up until when the cops came that they told us that one of them was dead and the other one was injured."

The shooter did go to work after all of this happened, but his family told us police called him and had him return home. He is now in police custody, not under arrest, but is being questioned.

26-year-old Rob, a father of five, was killed. His girlfriend, who is pregnant and waiting in a car, heard the gunshots.

"He got in the car and got in the driver's seat and was like, 'I'm shot. I'm going to die.' And I'm like, 'Don't play with me.' And he was like, "I'm for real,'" said Jodi, Rob's girlfriend.

"I want justice to be served. That guy deserves to go to jail," said Judy Hedrick, Rob's mother.