Police believe a man suspected of killing his 41-year-old girlfriend is barricaded inside a trailer in a Westland mobile home park.

Westland officers were still at a mobile home park on Glenwood Road near Wayne Road just before 7 a.m. Wednesday (June 29). The victim, identified by her mother as Tabitha Cornwall, was in a Jeep Grand Cherokee and police believe she was trying to flee when she was shot and killed.

The shooting initially happened around 1 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Cornwall’s mother, Diane Smith, said her daughter was trying to escape a domestic violence situation.

Cornwall is the mother of two adult children. They are 25 and 23 years old.