OT-aviation buff carjacked in Michigan

Apparently an aviation buff was carjacked last night in Battle creek. When
I turned on channel 17, the police chief was reporting that the suspect
was in a vehicle bearing license plate "Flynfun".

Sad (and otherwise OT) news report from Wood Channel 8 reposted below


(Update, Battle Creek, May 10, 2005, 5:43 a.m.) The man wanted for killing
a Battle Creek police officer has been arrested in Detroit. Genail Postley
Junior was taken into custody around 4:30 Tuesday morning after a police
chase.

A Ford Thunderbird that Postley allegedly stole in Battle Creek Monday was
spotted in Dearborn. A chase ensued, and Postley was arrested a short time
later in southwest Detroit.

Authorities say Postley is the man who killed Detective LaVern Brann and
wounded Detective Greg Huggett Monday afternoon. The shooting took place
around 4 p.m. at the Forest Hills apartment complex, located in the 900
block of Capital Avenue SW near Golden Avenue.

Battle Creek Police Chief David Headings said during a primetime press
conference that was carried live on WOOD TV8 that Detective LaVern Brann
and Detective Greg Huggett were investigating an April homicide case.
During that incident , Unice Sharp, a cab driver for City Cab in Battle
Creek, was found dead in the trunk of his taxi.

Chief Headings said the two detectives were pursuing a lead related to
Sharp's death. They went to the apartment complex to interview a woman and
her mother. No suspect had been developed in the investigation up to this
point, according to Chief Headings.

Chief Headings said Detective Brann went to the front of the apartment
complex, while his partner went to the back of the building. The chief
said Detective Huggett heard gun shots fired from the front of the
complex. That is where he encountered 21-year-old Genail Quincy Postley,
Jr. The chief says the two men exchanged gunfire, and the detective was
shot in a leg while Postley fled the scene.

Chief Headings said officers found 44-year-old Detective Brann shot in the
stairwell of the complex. He was transferred to Battle Creek Health
Systems where he later died. Detective Huggett was treated for his injury
and later released from the hospital.

A massive manhunt took place immediately following the shooting. According
to WOTV 4 Account Executive Jennifer Alexander, who was traveling near the
scene shortly after it happened, K-9 units were walking around George B
Place near Goguac Lake, located about one block south of the crime scene.
She said patrol cars were scattered all around the neighborhood, and that
there may have been officers with rifles searching near the Coney Island
restaurant on Dickman Road.

24 Hour News 8 Reporter Brad Edwards arrived at the scene and said police
helicopters were flying around the area, searching for the suspect. He
also said officers from the Battle Creek Police Department, Calhoun County
Sheriff's Department, State Police, Kalamazoo, and the Springfield Police
Department are all involved in the search.

About an hour after the shooting took place, police say Postley carjacked
a vehicle on Minges Road. They say that vehicle was a 2003 black retro
Ford Thunderbird with a soft top.

24 Hour News 8 has learned that Postley has convictions for assault with
intent to commit great bodily harm in 2001, and home invasion that same
year.

Detective Brann, a 20-year veteran of the police department, is survived
by his wife and two daughters. He was the vice president of the Pennfield
Schools Board of Education in Calhoun County.