Fuhrmann v. Hattaway

On March 3, 1976, plaintiff Martin Fuhrmann, who was acting in his employment as a police officer for the City of Detroit, answered a call that an armed man had barricaded himself in a room at the Addison Hotel. During the course of this episode a police chaplain was killed when he was shot by the armed man, Chauncy West. Plaintiff sustained serious, permanent injuries when he, too, was struck by bullets from West’s gun.

Earlier, on July 1, 1975, West had allegedly set fire to a vacant house in Detroit. Following his arrest and arraignment on arson charges, West underwent psychiatric…