Police Officer Fadi Mukhlis Shukur

Fadi Mukhlis Shukur

Police Officer Fadi Shukur succumbed to injuries sustained on August 4th, 2018, when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver on West McNichols Road, near Stahelin Avenue.

He was assisting other officers with crowd control outside of a club at approximately 2:30 am when a vehicle struck him at a high rate of speed. The vehicle fled the scene but the driver turned himself in a short time later. The 19-year-old driver was charged with vehicular homicide and alcohol-related felony hit-and-run. On March 14, 2019, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Officer Shukur was a U.S. Navy veteran of the War on Terror and had served with the Detroit Police Department for 18 months. He is survived by his wife of six weeks.