Overview
- Oakland County prosecutors charged 23-year-old Michael Tyrone Bowers III on Monday with discharging a firearm from a vehicle, discharging a firearm in or at a building, and two counts of felony firearm.
- Police responding Thursday to Cloverdale and Woodside avenues found bullet holes in the entryway of God's Grace Missionary Baptist Church, and no one was inside or injured.
- Surveillance video showed a vehicle linked to the shooting that prosecutors say belonged to Bowers.
- Officers arrested Bowers the same day as the gunfire and seized a firearm believed to have been used.
- Prosecutor Karen McDonald condemned attacks on churches, synagogues, and mosques, noting the lasting loss of security parishioners feel even when buildings are empty.