Overview
- Jurors are being vetted after Monday’s start to selection ended without a seated panel and proceedings resumed Tuesday.
- Michael Lopez, 45, is charged with murdering a peace officer along with multiple weapons offenses and cocaine possession.
- Police say Cpl. Mohamed Said pursued Lopez during a suspicious-person call on July 21, 2024, and was shot after using a Taser during a brief struggle.
- Investigators say Lopez later told them he fired because he did not want to return to jail.
- Officers arrested Lopez in southwest Detroit after a two-day manhunt, used Said’s handcuffs to restrain him, and said he had drugs and a knife when caught, with a separate July trial set on an alleged store robbery and a jail-weapon charge.