Crime & Safety
Seaholm High School Reopens After Carjacking Incident
Charges against one man are pending and the search for a second suspect in the robbery continues.
Classes will resume this morning at Seaholm High School following Tuesday's closure due to a carjacking investigation.
School officials said authorities concluded their on-the-scene investigation of the Seaholm parking lot on Tuesday and that classes will resume as normal today, roughly 24 hours after an employee was robbed at gunpoint upon arriving to work. Police said the maintenance worker arrived at the school's west entrance shortly before 5 a.m. and was approached by a man with gun who demanded his money and cell phone.
The assailant fired two shots into the air as he and another man stole the employee's vehicle and fled, but no one was injured. Police in Madison Heights spotted the vehicle and chased it into Detroit where it crashed near the intersection of of 7 Mile and Conant roads later Tuesday morning.
Authorities arrested one of the men that ran from the vehicle, and a second suspect remains at large.
Birmingham Police Cmdr. Terry Kiernan said the man in custody was not cooperating with detectives and that the investigation continues. No further updates were available Tuesday or early Wednesday morning.
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