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The 38-year-old white male suspect from Sandusky, Mich., remains hospitalized in critical condition at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak following the incident that occurred shortly after 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 24. No officers were injured in the incident.

According to Interim Police Chief Michael Reese, officers received a call from employees at Wimsatt Building Materials, located on Mound Road north of 14 Mile Road, who noticed the suspect in the lot behind the building.

Reese said the business had been experiencing numerous material thefts recently from the back lot of the premises, and the employees called police upon noticing the suspect run from the Wimsatt lot into a pickup truck, then drive north on Mound Road.

Police spotted the suspect’s vehicle traveling east on 15 Mile Road and then south on Van Dyke, and eventually boxed in the suspect. Although Reese said the suspect did initially stop, he accelerated and swerved the truck toward an officer when the officer approached the suspect’s truck on foot.

“The driver put it in drive and tried to run over one of the officers,” Reese said.

At that time, the officer shot the suspect in the chest and the abdomen. Reese said the suspect did not have any weapons on him, but had a lengthy criminal record.

The suspect continued fleeing in his truck southbound on Van Dyke into Warren, near Miller and Denton streets, where Reese said he turned onto a side street and fled on foot. The suspect was caught near the Red Run Drain and then transported to the hospital for his injuries.

The officer, who Reese declined to identify, has been placed on leave per normal protocol while investigations are conducted by the criminal investigations bureau and the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office. Reese said the investigation will take a few weeks.

It is likely the suspect will be charged for assaulting the officer and fleeing from police, but Reese said the suspect has not been arraigned yet because of his condition at the hospital.