FirstAlerts
Mass Casualty Incidents

Police identify two men killed in shooting at Southfield restaurant

Southfield police named the men as Christopher Griffin, Jr., 24, and Johnny Jackson, 28, after a shooting at a restaurant on West Nine Mile Road.

2 reports on this incident · first at Aug 11, 2026, 2:51 a.m. ET

By AI ReporterWritten Aug 11, 2026, 10:29 p.m. ET
Police have identified the men killed in a shooting at a , , restaurant as Christopher Griffin, Jr., 24, and Johnny Jackson, 28, according to The Oakland Press, which reported that police released both names. Police said Griffin was found dead in a hallway after officers responded to reports of multiple shots coming from the parking lot of the restaurant. The said people were killed, according to WXYZ, The Oakland Press and Fox Detroit. Officers were called shortly after 3:30 a.m. to a report of shots fired and found an adult male with apparent gunshot wounds, the department said. Several minutes after the shooting, a third victim, a 31-year-old man from New Haven, was privately transported to Sinai Grace Hospital, police said via the Detroit Police Department. Sources differ on the date and on the name of the . Fox Detroit and The Oakland Press place the shooting just after 3:30 a.m. on Aug. 9, while WDIV ClickOnDetroit dates it to Aug. 10. The is given as by Fox Detroit and WXYZ, as by The Oakland Press, and as the Hidden Gem restaurant off of West Nine Mile Road by WDIV ClickOnDetroit. The state is given as by WXYZ and WDIV ClickOnDetroit and as by Fox Detroit. On the setting, accounts also differ: WXYZ and Fox Detroit describe a shooting at a restaurant in the early morning hours of Sunday, while WDIV ClickOnDetroit reported that a staff member said the restaurant is sometimes used as a private lounge and event space after hours. The incident is no longer active. Fox Detroit reported that the status of any suspect is unknown. Responding agencies included the and the Detroit Police Department. Anyone with information is asked to call the .

Earlier reports

  1. Aug 11, 2026, 2:51 a.m. ETFirst report

    Two killed in shooting at Southfield, Michigan, restaurant

    Two people were killed in a shooting at a restaurant on Nine Mile Road in Southfield, according to the Southfield Police Department as reported by WXYZ, The Oakland Press and Fox 2 Detroit. Sources disagree on the date: Fox 2 Detroit and The Oakland Press give it as Aug. 9, 2026, while WDIV ClickOnDetroit gives Aug. 10, 2026. Southfield police said officers were called to a shooting at the venue just after 3:30 a.m. on Aug. 9, and WXYZ reported, citing information given to the station, that shots were fired at around 3:30 a.m. The Southfield Police Department said officers responding to a report of shots fired found an adult male with apparent gunshot wounds.

    The venue is named as Hidden Gems on Nine Mile Road by Fox 2 Detroit and WXYZ, as the Hidden Gem restaurant off of West Nine Mile Road by WDIV ClickOnDetroit, and as Hidden Gems Restaurant by The Oakland Press. WDIV ClickOnDetroit reported that a staff member said the restaurant is sometimes used as a private lounge and event space after hours. Fox 2 Detroit and WXYZ described the shooting as happening in the early morning hours of Sunday. The state is given as Michigan by WXYZ and WDIV ClickOnDetroit and as Mich. by Fox 2 Detroit.

    All four outlets reported the incident is no longer active and identified Southfield police as the responding agency. The two people killed have not been identified; officials have not released their identities. Fox 2 Detroit reported that the status of any suspect is unknown. The circumstances of the shooting have not been determined, and police have not said what led to it. This is a developing story.

    Anyone with information is asked to call the Southfield Police Department at (248) 796-5500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAK-UP.

Was this report accurate and useful?

Sources

Revision history

  1. Version 311 Aug 2026, 06:51current

    Added The Oakland Press as a fourth source, its venue naming and Aug. 9 date, and the police statement that officers found an adult male with apparent gunshot wounds.

  2. Version 211 Aug 2026, 05:23

    Added WDIV ClickOnDetroit reporting, including the conflicting date (Aug. 9 vs Aug. 10), its variant naming of the venue, and a staff member's account that the restaurant is sometimes used as an after-hours private lounge and event space.

  3. Version 111 Aug 2026, 04:27

    First published.

  4. Version 112 Aug 2026, 02:29current

    First published.

How we work

This site models an investigative reporter rather than a wire desk. The aim is the most complete, accurate and timely account we can assemble — all three, not a trade between them. Reports go out within minutes of the coverage they are built from, carrying context a newsroom would otherwise need a day and a records request to gather: what has happened at this place before, what the operator’s record is, which aircraft it actually was.

Reports are built from primary sources — accident and court records, official registries, weather observations, agency statements — and from reputable news organisations, each named where their reporting is used. Facts are extracted before anything is written, and every one must be supported by a quotation found in the source itself; the model that writes the report is given only those verified facts and never sees the article, so it cannot introduce a detail no source stated.

Where sources disagree we publish the disagreement, attributed, rather than picking a figure. Where a fact comes from a record rather than a reporter, we say so, and the language matches: an instrument reading is never described as something anyone confirmed. Some things are deliberately withheld — a suspect is not named until an agency names them on the record, victims until families or officials release them — and corrections appear as visible revisions, never as silent edits.

None of that makes a report true. A quotation check proves a source said something, not that it was right, and an automated system can be confidently wrong in ways the checks do not catch. If something here is wrong, the feedback above is how it gets found. The full methodology, including what we refuse to publish.