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Update: 4:30 p.m. Wednesday: A driver Royal Oak Police fatally shot on Tuesday evening is identified as Antonino Thomas Gordon, 28, of Commerce Township.
He had arrests for driving while intoxicated and was wanted on a $75,000 bond, Mike Martindale and Mike Hicks of The Detroit News report.
His driver's license was suspended in April 2017 and was not due for re-examination until April 22, 2018, according to state Department of Motor Vehicles records, the paper learns.
Original article, Wednesday morning:
Royal Oak Police fatally shot a motorist at 13 and Woodward at White Castle on Tuesday evening, Nick Monacelli of WDIV reports.
Police first tried to stop the motorist in a BMW on Woodward Avenue near 13 Mile Road, but the driver took off and ended up at the White Castle drive-thru.
"He was stopped and then he fled from the officer and he went actually through that White Castle parking lot, too," Chief Corey says. "Then the officer lost him in traffic."
Fifteen minutes later, the driver returned to White Castle and was picking up food in the drive-thru.
"The officer approached the driver at that point, and our officer shot at the driver, striking him," said the chief.
The wounded driver took off and crashed head-on into a mini-van a quarter mile away.
