Homicides decreased 18.7% from 2024 and 34.5% from 2023, with 165 murders recorded -- the lowest number since 1965. This is the first time in roughly 60 years that Detroit has seen fewer than 200 murders. Nonfatal shootings dropped to 447 in 2025 from 607 the previous year. In 2020, the city recorded more than 1,000 nonfatal shootings.

Mayor Mary Sheffield and other officials will share 2025 Detroit crime data during a press conference Wednesday morning.

Coats Stevens, 28, was pronounced dead at the scene, while his brother remained in critical condition Wednesday, according to Detroit police. Harris, 42, was arrested at the scene and was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder, felony firearm as well as resisting and obstructing a police officer.

Detroit records its lowest murder rate since 1965 with overall crime declining, including a 34.5% drop in homicides and reductions in nonfatal shootings and carjackings. New community-focused safety initiatives are being launched.

Hundreds gathered on Tuesday evening outside of Chita's Nefertiti bar, where a 28-year-old man was shot to death, and his brother was stabbed multiple times over the weekend.

State police are investigating a freeway shooting in Detroit that happened late Dec. 31. A motorist told law enforcement a shooter struck his car twice, firing shots from a Dodge SUV. The shooting happened near Grand River in the southbound lanes of I-75 (FOX 2) - A shooting on a highway in Detroit is being investigated by Michigan State Police after a vehicle was found with two bullet holes.