Posted: 5/10/2005 7:10:31 AM EDT
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Arrest Made in Michigan Police Shooting WOOD TV (Update, Battle Creek, May 10, 2005, 5:43 a.m.) The man wanted for killing a Battle Creek police officer has been arrested in Detroit. Genail Postley Junior was taken into custody around 4:30 Tuesday morning after a police chase. A Ford Thunderbird that Postley allegedly stole in Battle Creek Monday was spotted in Dearborn. A chase ensued, and Postley was arrested a short time later in southwest Detroit. Authorities say Postley is the man who killed Detective LaVern Brann and wounded Detective Greg Huggett Monday afternoon. The shooting took place around 4 p.m. at the Forest Hills apartment complex, located in the 900 block of Capital Avenue SW near Golden Avenue. Battle Creek Police Chief David Headings said during a primetime press conference that was carried live on WOOD TV8 that Detective LaVern Brann and Detective Greg Huggett were investigating an April homicide case. During that incident , Unice Sharp, a cab driver for City Cab in Battle Creek, was found dead in the trunk of his taxi. Chief Headings said the two detectives were pursuing a lead related to Sharp's death. They went to the apartment complex to interview a woman and her mother. No suspect had been developed in the investigation up to this point, according to Chief Headings. Chief Headings said Detective Brann went to the front of the apartment complex, while his partner went to the back of the building. The chief said Detective Huggett heard gun shots fired from the front of the complex. That is where he encountered 21-year-old Genail Quincy Postley, Jr. The chief says the two men exchanged gunfire, and the detective was shot in a leg while Postley fled the scene. Chief Headings said officers found 44-year-old Detective Brann shot in the stairwell of the complex. He was transferred to Battle Creek Health Systems where he later died. Detective Huggett was treated for his injury and later released from the hospital. A massive manhunt took place immediately following the shooting. According to WOTV 4 Account Executive Jennifer Alexander, who was traveling near the scene shortly after it happened, K-9 units were walking around George B Place near Goguac Lake, located about one block south of the crime scene. She said patrol cars were scattered all around the neighborhood, and that there may have been officers with rifles searching near the Coney Island restaurant on Dickman Road. 24 Hour News 8 Reporter Brad Edwards arrived at the scene and said police helicopters were flying around the area, searching for the suspect. He also said officers from the Battle Creek Police Department, Calhoun County Sheriff's Department, State Police, Kalamazoo, and the Springfield Police Department are all involved in the search. About an hour after the shooting took place, police say Postley carjacked a vehicle on Minges Road. They say that vehicle was a 2003 black retro Ford Thunderbird with a soft top. 24 Hour News 8 has learned that Postley has convictions for assault with intent to commit great bodily harm in 2001, and home invasion that same year. Detective Brann, a 20-year veteran of the police department, is survived by his wife and two daughters. He was the vice president of the Pennfield Schools Board of Education in Calhoun County. |
I was listening to this this morning on the police radio in Dearborn. I heard dispatch say he was wanted in a shooting but had no idea it was for killing a cop  He carjacked a second car in Detroit (Shaefer & Oakwood) after crashing the T-Bird, led the cops on a 90 mph chase until he crashed again somewhere in the Mexicantown part of Detroit. Good thing they got him. |