Ascension Michigan/WXYZ
On Sunday night, police carried out a wellness check at the home of a revered neurosurgeon who had failed to show up at a family party. In the attic of the property belonging to Dr. Devon Hoover in Detroit’s historic Boston-Edison District, officers found a scene of horror.
Hoover’s lifeless body was found wrapped up in a plastic sheet with a single gunshot wound to the head. His car was also later found ditched at a separate location, according to FOX 2. As of Tuesday, no arrest had been made in the case as investigators still worked to establish the circumstances around the grim killing. According to CBS Detroit, police believe the shooting may have been “related to a domestic incident that turned deadly.”
Neighbors and patients who Hoover treated through Ascension Healthcare at St. John Hospital in Detroit were shocked by news of the 53-year-old’s brutal death. “I went on Facebook and I saw his picture and thought oh, he must’ve gotten an award,” Julia, one of Hoover’s patients, told WXYZ. “So I put my glasses on and my daughter was outside with the dog and I just started screaming, ‘Oh, my God, oh, my God.’”