Were getting a first look at body-worn camera footage of the deputy-involved shooting death of Tony Cox.

It happened in Pontiac on Dec. 13, 2023, as Oakland County Sheriff's Office deputies stopped Coxs vehicle, saying it looked similar to another car tied to a shots fired call four days prior.

In the video, Cox is met by several deputies during the stop. He told them he was afraid. He then maneuvered around a deputys vehicle and drove off the sheriffs office says he nearly struck one of the deputies.

Coxs vehicle was stopped soon after as a deputy performed a PIT maneuver on his car.

Cox got out hands clasped and extended toward officers, but he does not have a gun. The first shot rings out. Cox then runs and is struck several more times and later died.

We believe its the rounds when he was hit nine times in the back. Those are the fatal shots, attorney Todd Perkins said.

I asked Perkins if his argument was that, at that point, he no longer posed a threat as he was running away from the officers.

"Thats not an argument. Thats a fact. How can you pose a threat to an individual when youre running away from them?" he said.

Perkins and attorney Joel Sklar are representing Coxs family in a wrongful death lawsuit against the Oakland County Sheriffs Office.

I just believe that there couldve been a better way. If hes telling you hes scared. He gave you the info you asked for, no problem, said Tanaisha Cox, Tonys sister.

The incident was investigated by the Oakland County Sheriffs Office Special Investigations Unit (S.I.U.) and independently by the Ingham County Sheriff's Office. Both entities found that the actions of the deputy sheriffs were objectively reasonable under the circumstances, said Stephen Huber, Oakland County Sheriffs Office Public Information Officer.

The investigator from the Ingham County Sheriffs Office tasked with reviewing the incident came to this conclusion, saying in part:

any reasonable police personnel, presented with these case facts, would have believed the suspect, Tony Cox, posed a threat of serious bodily injury and or death to deputies it is also my opinion that after the suspect assumed a shooting stance and began to run from the scene of the crash, any reasonable police personnel would believe the suspect was armed, had just committed violent felonies, and that he posed a present danger to the police officers on the scene as well as to the public at large.

Perkins says he and Sklar are moving forward with their suit intent to get justice for Coxs family.

It definitely confirms everything weve been feeling that he should still be here, and we miss him dearly, said Tiffany Macon, Coxs sister. Tony wasnt armed. As officers, I feel like they shouldve made sure he wasnt armed.

A joint operation between the Canton Police Department and Michigan State Police led to the closure of tobacco shops accused of selling vape products to kids.

Every week, we see kids with just pants on with their high school logo or hoodies with their high school logo walking in and out its constant, said Zack Mcardle, who works out at a gym near Vape N Chase. Pretty much the main customers I see here are kids.

King Tobacco and Vape N Chase have been on the Canton Police Departments radar for months. The first blip came from complaints from residents. Those complaints were later confirmed through a series of decoy buys by high school students working undercover for police.

On Friday, Canton police and MSP executed search warrants at both shops and got the green light to have the citys building department shut them down.

Most of the businesses in Canton follow the rules like theyre supposed to, Capt. Joseph Bialy of the Canton Police Department said. But when you have those outliers, the message we would like to send to them is if youre going to be an outlier and youre going to sell these products to minors, were going to hold you accountable and potentially impact your business sales.

Canton did not just make the businesses close shop, theyre also seizing their products. Some of the products make their way to Plymouth-Canton Community Schools.

Weve had students that had ingested a vape pen thinking its simply a vape pen, then they find out there are high levels of THC in it and they get very sick, up to and including having to be hospitalized, Josh Meier said.

Meier is the districts director of school safety and security.

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For us, its a problem we want to address, not necessarily from a discipline standpoint although, we will administer discipline but we want kids to understand the health implications of this: what this vaping may do to them 10 or five years down the road, Meier said.

Some vape products are often labeled as having a THC content of less than .3% but lab reports show the total cannabinoids, which includes THC, at nearly 80%.

The shops owner will have to go to court to reopen. He was unavailable for comment Friday.

The two employees taken into custody could face felony charges for illegal vape sales.

The family says the suspect stood on a dumpster to get into the house through a bathroom window. Once inside, he unlocked other doors in the house and headed to one of the bedrooms, where he put a knife to a nine-year-old girls throat.

Though unharmed, the nine-year-old niece is still shaken up after the home break-in that happened around 3 am Monday, January 13th.

Shes still frightened. Shes still traumatized. Any noise being made, she gets scared and spooked out, said Breana Pearl, the girls aunt.

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A guy approached her at her room door, and he put his finger up and said, Shhh, and she got kinda scared. She didnt know what was going on, then he approached her with a knife and put it up to her neck and told her to stop screaming, kept telling her to be quiet, and she just started screaming, said Pearl.

That woke up the girls mother, who bolted from her room to see the suspect running out of her front door on Hubbell near Schoolcraft. Her neighbors are stunned.

"Very frustrating, yeah. That somebody would do something like that," says neighbor Chris Robertson.

A Detroit police spokesperson says the department is actively investigating the case and has stepped up patrols in the area.

Its been over a week now since this happened. For so many people too not know about whats going on in the community in regards to someone actually breaking into somebodys house and putting a knife up to a little nine-year-old girl, you tell me what community that flies in, said Isiah Zeek Williams.

Williams heads up New Era Detroit, one of the citys community violence intervention groups. Men from his team have been canvassing the area since the break-in. Earlier this week, they found a loaded shotgun in an abandoned house next door to the home in question.

For one to be so close, a situation like that, its even more alarming, and once again, not saying the shotgun belonged to the person who did that, but its close enough for concern, said Williams. Were going to treat it as such and make sure we put ourselves in the understanding that there is a real predator out on the loose, and the community needs to be to first and foremost informed and first and foremost vigilant.

Anyone with information about that break-in please call Detroit Police Departments Second Precinct at 313-596-5240.

Body cameras captured a tense standoff between Macomb County Sheriff deputies and William Kucharski Jr. last week. Deputies responded to a call from his sister that Kucharski had just strangled their fathers Labrador retriever named Punkey and may have been armed.

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As the officers had searched the home it was very clear and evident he had strangled the family pet, said Commander Jason Abro of the Macomb County Sheriffs Office.

Kucharski was taken into custodycharged with third-degree animal torture/kill and is locked up on a $150,000 cash bond.

This dog going through its final moments of its life at the hands of the suspect is pretty traumatic, said Abro.

Bill Kucharski is the suspects father and owner of the dog. He says his son, who is paralyzed and has a prosthetic leg, is getting a raw deal because of his criminal past.

He told 7 News Detroit that his son loved Punkey and that he wouldn't do this.

"He made videos with Punkey. He fed Punkey every day with his bad leg and everything. Hed put Punkey on the couch, hug him sleep with him. Theres no way he wouldve hurt that dog," said Bill Kucharski.

"So what couldve happened then?" we asked.

"I think the dog died of old age. That dog is 15 years old. The dog, he was going blind, he was deaf, he had hip displacement or something like that," he said.

Kucharski Jr. has a criminal history that includes operating while intoxicated, breaking and entering and larceny. Theres also a trio of felony warrants out for his arrest in Lapeer County: second-degree arson, assault with a dangerous weapon and resisting and obstructing police.

Doctors in Lansing are conducting a necropsy on the dogs body to determine how it died. Authorities say they are seeing a spike in animal cruelty cases.

In my 20 years of doing this, this last year and a half, two years would be the most prevalent that Ive ever seen animal cruelty cases, said Jeff Randazzo of the Macomb County Animal Shelter.

Bill Kucharski says the alleged the sins of the son are being visited upon the father. He tried to get a new dog after his son was arrested last week, but was flatly denied by a local shelter.

Whether my son killed the dog or not and Im saying 'if,' why do I have to be punished for it? Bill Kucharski asked.

Kucharski Jr. is due back in court next week. He likely wont be brought up on those other felony charges until the Macomb County Sheriffs office wraps up its investigation.