March 25, 2021- 4:00 p.m
LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP, MI – A shootout along I-94 between police and a murder suspect from Alabama, Landon Harbin, 24. He was arrested after he exchanged gunfire with a Michigan State Police trooper and a Van Buren County Sheriff’s deputy on the side of the highway.
The officers had conducted a traffic stop on a car that had been reported stolen in Alabama when Harbin got out and fired at them. They returned fire, but no one was hit. The incident happened on eastbound I-94 near the 50-mile marker in Van Buren County’s Lawrence Township.
Harbin can be seen surrendering after firing all of the rounds from his handgun. He remains on the ground as four officers approach him. “If he moves, you kill him,” an officer can be heard saying. After he was arrested, police learned Harbin was wanted for allegedly killing his mother in Alabama.
The Madison County Sheriff’s Department said Jana Harbin, 54, was found dead Sept. 6 inside her Meridianville, Ala. home. She owned the car Landon Harbin was driving when he was arrested in Michigan, according to police. In Van Buren County, Harbin pleaded guilty Oct. 6 to two counts assault with intent to murder and one count of felony firearm, according to court records
. His bond was set at $5 million and he remains jailed in Van Buren County, according to jail records. Officials at the Madison County Sheriff’s Department could not be reached for comment Friday on the status of the case against Harbin in Alabama.
