Pubdate: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 Source: Ann Arbor News (MI) Contact: 2007 The Ann Arbor News Website: http://www.mlive.com/aanews/index.ssf Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/20 Author: Susan L. Oppat, News Staff Reporter MAN KILLED BY POLICE WAS SHOT 6 TIMES, FAMILY SAYS Medical Examiner and Police Not Releasing Details Official details remain sparse, but a man killed Tuesday night by a narcotics officer during an undercover drug buy in Ypsilanti was apparently shot multiple times as he ran from police. The family of David Antjuan Ware, 29, of Ypsilanti, said he was shot six times, at least once in the back. Several witnesses say they heard multiple gunshots as police chased a man from the parking lot of the Keg Party Store on North Huron Street onto Arcade Street, where he eventually collapsed. State Police Lt. Garth Burnside said Ware was fatally shot by an unidentified officer from LAWNET, the Livingston and Washtenaw Narcotics Enforcement team, after the undercover drug buy somehow went bad. Another man, Burnside said in a press release, was injured when he was hit by a police car. Family identified that man as Maurice Moore, 25, of Ypsilanti Township, who was treated at a hospital and released to police. He was expected to be charged with unspecified crimes at the Washtenaw County Jail today. Burnside refused to release further information. Washtenaw County Deputy Chief Assistant Prosecutor Steve Hiller said he would not comment on an open investigation. A neighbor who lives across the street from the party store told a reporter he heard multiple shots, looked outside and saw a man kneeling in the parking lot and a car peeling out of the lot. The neighbor, who would only identify himself as Mike, said the man fell flat onto the ground, then got up and ran across Huron Street onto Arcade Street with what he later learned were undercover police officers in pursuit. On Arcade Street, a single-block side street running from North Huron to North Adams Street, a woman and her 14-year-old son said they heard the shots at the party store. They hit the floor, the woman said, but then got to their knees and looked out the windows. She and her son said at least two undercover police officers chased Ware up the street. The teen said Ware shouted something, then he heard the police yell for the man to stop. Then one officer, he said, fired repeatedly at Ware as he continued to run. Merlin Hargrove, Moore's mother and a cousin to Ware, said Ware was engaged to be married, and has six children. She said her son is married and has a 2-year-old daughter. Michigan Department of Corrections records indicate Ware served time from 2000 to 2003 for delivery of cocaine and from 1997 to 1998 for unlawful use of a motor vehicle. Washtenaw County Medical Examiner Bader Cassin this morning said that police asked him not to release any information from the autopsy he conducted Wednesday. But Rhonda Witty, a cousin of Ware's, said Wednesday that her family was told at the morgue that Ware was shot twice in the chest, twice in the leg, once in the groin and once in the back, in a shoulder blade. "He probably was involved in a drug deal. And there is no way I condone the fact that he may have played a part in this," Witty said. But, she added, shooting Ware six times seemed excessive. She said that if tests indicate Ware had or fired a gun, "then I can understand." But failing that, she said, she wants an explanation. The family, she said, "would just like to know what happened. I'm not condoning what David did. We just want to know. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake