A 16-year-old girl died Tuesday evening after being shot multiple times on Chalmers Street between Mack and Warren avenues on Detroit's east side, and a 19-year-old man was also wounded in what police are calling a drive-by shooting. Officers responded to the scene around 6:50 p.m., and the man's medical condition was still unknown hours later.
According to FOX 2 Detroit, officers were called to Chalmers Street between Mack and Warren avenues for a shooting that left the teenage girl with multiple gunshot wounds; she later died at the hospital. The station reported that police described the incident as a drive-by shooting in which a car was shot, though investigators had not released information on a suspect, a motive, or how many people were involved.
Separately, Metro Detroit News reported that the shooting took place near Chalmers and East Forest, with multiple shell casings found at the scene. That outlet reported the 19-year-old man was alive after being taken to a hospital in a private vehicle, and that the suspect remained on the run as of its report, with Detroit police saying more information would be provided shortly.
Third Shooting This Week Involving a Minor
The station's report noted the case marks the third shooting this week in Detroit in which a minor was shot, underscoring a string of violence even as city officials have pointed to improving numbers overall. As of 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, the 19-year-old man's condition had not been determined, per the same account.
No arrests had been announced in connection with the shooting, and police had not disclosed whether the girl and the man were together at the time or how the shooting unfolded.
Other Recent East Side Shootings
The Chalmers Street shooting follows a violent stretch on Detroit's east side in recent months. According to CBS News Detroit, a person was killed and another seriously injured in a shooting on the 15500 block of East Warren Avenue around 11:15 p.m., with police identifying both victims as female but not disclosing their ages; one of the women later died from her injuries while the other was listed in critical condition the following morning, and an individual was taken into custody. About five hours before that shooting, four people, including a 10-year-old child, were injured in a separate drive-by shooting on the 3700 block of Haverhill Street, also on the east side, with no suspect information released at the time.
A separate incident reported in August by Hoodline described a shooting near East Warren Avenue and Chalmers that killed one woman and critically injured another, with police describing the suspect as armed and dangerous before he fled on foot; Detroit police reportedly took a suspect into custody the following day.
Citywide Trends Show Fewer Juvenile Homicides
The shooting comes even as city data point to a broader decline in violence this year. Detroit recorded 105 homicides between January 1 and September 30, down 18% from 128 during the same period in 2025, according to MLive. The outlet also reported that juvenile homicide victims fell to four through September this year, compared with 13 during the same stretch last year, and that the city recorded 42 homicides between June and August, a 25% drop from the prior summer.
City officials have also highlighted a sharp drop in juvenile homicides specifically during the summer months. Juvenile homicides fell from nine victims last summer to just one this year between June and August, an 89% decline, according to WXYZ, which also reported that nonfatal shooting victims declined by 22% over the same period. Those citywide gains stand in contrast to the violence reported this week, as Tuesday's shooting adds another young victim to a year that officials had otherwise described as markedly safer.
Detroit police had not released suspect information in the Chalmers Street case as of their latest statements, and the investigation remains open.
