On the night of June 22, 2024, 30-year-old Oakland County Sheriff’s Deputy Bradley Reckling was ambushed and fatally shot while working undercover in Detroit. A nine-year veteran of the department, Reckling had recently joined the auto theft unit and was tracking a 2022 Chevrolet Equinox reported stolen earlier that day from a waterpark in Madison Heights. As he followed the vehicle through a Detroit neighborhood it stopped, occupants exited and opened fire, striking him multiple times in the head and torso. He was rushed to a hospital but did not survive.

The Detroit Police Department and Michigan State Police investigated the ambush and linked it to a multi-county auto theft ring. Three 18-year-old suspects — Raymone Raylee Debose, Marquis Lamar Goins, and Karim Blake Moore — were arrested and charged in connection with the attack and the larger criminal enterprise. Prosecutors said Debose fired the fatal shots; he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder of a peace officer and a felony firearm charge and received 33 to 60 years. Goins and Moore also pleaded guilty and received multiyear prison terms for charges tied to the carjackings and the criminal enterprise.

Deputy Reckling was a husband and father of three, with a fourth child expected. If anyone knew Deputy Reckling, his work in the auto theft unit, or the ring operating across the counties, please share information with the investigators.