WXYZ
March 9, 2015
U.S. District Court Judge was rushed to the hospital after being shot on Detroit’s northwest side.
Judge Terrence Berg was shot in the leg. The shooting happened on Oak Drive. That’s near 7 Mile and Livernois.
Police are searching for two men in the case. They are described as African-American men, between the ages of 18 and 20, both with facial hair. They are believed to be in a Dodge Charger that is dark in color.
Sources say the judge was taking the trash out when he was approached two men who tried to get him to take them into his house. There was a struggle, during which a gun went off and Berg was shot in the leg.
The Judge’s wife called 911 as the suspects fled from the scene. He is in temporary serious condition with a wound to the inner thigh.
Berg has been on the federal bench since December 2012. He was nominated to fill the seat vacated by Judge Arthur Tarnow by President Obama in April 2012.
He served as an Assistant US Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 1989 to 1999 and then again from 2003 to 2012. He was also Assistant Attorney General and chief of High Tech Crime Unit for the State of Michigan from 1999 to 2003.
Berg was born in Detroit in 1959.