Jehu Merrit & Dione Wade & Deangelo Shau charged home invasion, hostage situation

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Three men suspected in the hostage situation in Dearborn on Tuesday were arraigned today in 19th District Court.

Jehu Zebulum Merrit, 18, and Dione Andre Wade, 23, both of Detroit, and Deangelo Shaun Jordon, 17, of Westland were charged with home invasion and two counts of armed robbery. Wade also was charged with kidnapping and firearm counts.

A Dearborn couple surprised three burglars when they arrived at their home in the 7000 block of Manor at about 8 p.m. Tuesday. Two suspects fled through a back door but one remained and held the male homeowner hostage. The homeowner’s wife escaped. Police raided the home at 5 a.m. Wednesday and the homeowner was rescued but suffered minor injuries. The suspects are expected in return to 19th District Court on Friday for a preliminary exam.

Wade received no bond, the other two defendants received a $500,000 cash bond.

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DEARBORN, Mich. -- The three men involved in a home invasion on Tuesday night that led to a gunman holding a Dearborn man hostage and serveral Dearborn SWAT officers injured have been charged with home invasion and various counts of other felonies as well.

The preliminary exam for all three men is Friday Feb. 27 in the 19th District Court.

The SWAT officers are being treated at area hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries.

The officers were injured in a house fire where the gunman was holding a hostage on the 7500 block of Manor Drive.

The hostages were not injured.

Police said the standoff started when a man and his wife came home around 11 p.m. and interrupted a robbery in progress.

Police arrived and barricaded the street and surrounded the home.

Two of the three suspected robbers fled the home from the back door and were arrested, police said. The female homeowner was also able to escape and was taken to safety.

The third robber, who police said was armed with handgun and a rifle, held the husband hostage inside the home.

During the negotiation process, which ended around 5 a.m., shots were fired from inside the home and the gunman and the homeowner were involved in a fight, police said.

The SWAT team moved in and was able to arrest the gunman and secure the hostage.

Investigators said somehow the home became engulfed in flames during the arrest and several SWAT officers were trapped in the burning home and forced to jump through a second-story window.

The Termos family lives next door to the home where the standoff happened.

Mike Termos said police knocked on their doors and told them to hide in the basement. "We were waiting for them to catch them," said Termos after he and his brother and parents spent most of the night in the basement.

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