Police are probing the homicide of a Saginaw man at an illegal after-hours club.
The fatal shooting occurred around 3:53 a.m. on Sunday, June 1, at 3238 Wadsworth Road in Buena Vista Township. According to Buena Vista Township Police Detective Russ Pahssen, the location is known as “The Pole Barn” and has hosted numerous late-night/early-morning parties where food and wine are distributed without a license. He asserted that numerous large parties involving hundreds of people had prompted police summons.
Surveillance footage showed 41-year-old Demetrious A. “Meak” Robinson leaving the barn with a 28-year-old woman. According to Pahssen, another male exited the barn with the hood of his sweatshirt tightened around his face and approached Robinson and the woman.
The hooded man then brought out a 9mm handgun and shot Robinson four times. Robinson collapsed, only for the gunman to stand over him and shoot him 12 more times, Pahssen said.
According to Pahssen, the woman had a grazing cut on her right arm.
The shooter then ran out of sight.
Investigators do not yet have a suspect, but they are studying camera footage and interrogating several witnesses. Pahssen requested anyone with information about the shooter’s identity to contact him at 989-577-9583.
Robinson is survived by six children and one grandson. His death marks Buena Vista Township’s third homicide this year.
The first was the hit-and-run fatality of 20-year-old Simon A. Brown, whose corpse was discovered on M-13/Veterans Memorial Parkway about a half mile south of the Zilwaukee Bridge at 3:50 a.m. on March 31. The second was Deon K. Haynes, 31, who was ambushed as he came onto the front porch of his mother’s home in the 2900 block of Arlington Road shortly before 4 a.m. on April 26.
No one has been charged with either Brown’s or Haynes’ deaths.
Robinson’s homicide is the 14th in Saginaw County this year, with 10 of them caused by gunshot.
