Overview
- Police executed a search warrant on Detroit’s east side around 3 p.m. Wednesday and encountered 20-year-old Anthony Boone in a bedroom where a single gunshot was fired.
- Detroit initially reported an officer returned fire and killed the subject but Chief Todd Bettison said late Wednesday that body-worn camera footage shows Boone fatally shot himself.
- The officer involved has been placed on administrative leave, the bodycam video is not being released to the public, and no other people were reported injured during the operation.
- Investigators tie the raid to a May 23 shooting on Waltham Street and are actively searching for Boone’s 17-year-old brother, DeMarco (Demarco) Ballard, whom police describe as armed and dangerous.
- The case highlights how body-worn camera review can alter use-of-force accounts and may prompt further internal and external reviews of police procedure and public transparency.