Officials: Man shot by Shelby Twp. police had called 911, said 'come kill me now'

Shelby Township police officers who shot a man while responding to his 911 call earlier this month will return to work this week, the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday.

Miles Farish, 30, allegedly stabbed his mother between 14 and 16 times on the morning of Jan. 9 before fleeing on foot and calling 911, according to the sheriff’s office, which has since closed its investigation into the case.

“When you look at policy, when you look at applicable state law, these officers, this is a textbook situation,” Sheriff Anthony Wickersham said at a Wednesday press conference. “He wasn’t going to stop unless something was done. They used great restraints and followed their training.”

Farish told the 911 dispatcher he had stabbed his mother and demanded that first responders kill him.

 “I need you to come kill me right now,” Farish said in the call without specifying whom he was referring to. Farish also threatened on the call to kill unspecified first responders if they did not kill him.

“He was bent on coming at law enforcement,” Wickersham said. “His comments and even in his actions, he wanted law enforcement to shoot him, possibly in a ‘suicide by cop’ situation.”

Farish's attorney, Josh Jones, said he had no comment as of Wednesday.

Shelby Township’s emergency dispatch also received other calls about a domestic stabbing incident as of 6:23 a.m. that day, according to the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office.

Two police officers arrived to the Shelby Oaks Apartment Complex on Utica Green West Road at 6:37 a.m., where they met Farish walking north two minutes later, according to the sheriff’s office.

Body camera footage shows the Shelby Township officers shouted at Farish to stop walking toward them, drop his phone and keep his hands in officers’ line of sight.

Farish continued walking with both hands raised above his head toward the officers, according to the footage.

“He’s coming at us with a knife,” one officer said in the recording.

The two officers backed away with guns drawn as a third Shelby Township police officer arrived at the scene, according to the sheriff’s office.

The first two officers kept yelling at Farish to “drop the knife” as he continued walking toward them. The third officer unsuccessfully shot a taser at Farish, according to the sheriff’s office.

The third officer shot Farish with the taser again one second later as the first two officers shot at Farish 18 times. Six of those shots struck him, authorities said.

The three officers called for medical aid, applied pressure to his wounds and applied a tourniquet 10 seconds later after disarming Farish, according to the sheriff’s office.

“They did everything they could to save Farish’s life,” Wickersham said.

Sheriff’s office investigators and the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office found no evidence to charge the police officers who shot Farish, according to a sheriff’s office press release.

The officers have since been evaluated and cleared to return to work on Friday, Wickersham said.

Farish remains under guard and in stable condition at Beaumont Hospital in Troy, where he was arraigned from his bed and assigned a $2 million cash bond, Wickersham said.

Farish’s mother is also alive, he said.

Aside from a missing persons report and one “traffic contact,” Wickersham said Farish had not had any previous contact with law enforcement.