A man accused of shooting a gun at a Clawson man in a road rage incident was given a $2 million bond at his arraignment before a Troy judge.
Steven C. Houston, 28, of Madison Heights is charged with assault with intent to murder and felony firearm charges in the shooting Oct. 15 near 14 Mile and Crooks roads in Clawson.
Even if Houston could come up with the bond, he won’t be released any time soon.
He is being held by the Michigan Department of Corrections at a facility in Jackson for a parole violation.
In a live video from the prison, Houston was arraigned by Troy 52-4 District Judge Kirsten Nielson Hartig on Monday. The judge scheduled Houston for a pre-exam conference Nov. 28 and a preliminary examination for Dec. 5.
A woman with Houston in the car he was driving at the time of the shooting — Latrice L. Hassel, 24, of Madison Heights — was charged last month with being an accomplice after the fact.
Clawson police released surveillance pictures of the suspect and Hassel after the shooting, in which no one was injured, and investigators were able to identify Houston and Hassel, police said.
Authorities believe both suspects fled to Ohio following the shooting.
Hassel returned to Michigan and turned herself in to Clawson police a couple of weeks later.
Houston was on parole and was tracked down and arrested by U.S. Marshals in Ohio before he was eventually transported to Michigan earlier this month and held at the Charles Egeler Reception & Guidance Center, an MDOC facility with a double chain link fence equipped with an electrified stun fence and concertina wire.
The suspect was paroled from prison last year. He was convicted in 2012 for assault with a dangerous weapon, carrying a concealed weapon and felony firearm charges in Oakland County.
Houston now faces more serious charges and the attempted murder count against him is punishable by up to life in prison.
Police said the shooting happened after Houston was driving in the center turn lane by a vehicle coming from the opposite direction on 14 Mile Road. Both vehicles were blocked by the other and short of where they trying to turn.
A woman and her Clawson boyfriend were in the other vehicle, police said, Houston and the other man, 28, exchanged heated words and gestures during the turn-lane standoff, officers reported.
Houston pursued the Clawson man after the vehicle he was in turned into the parking lot of the Hideout sports bar.
The suspect tried to run the Clawson man down, but he was able to dodge Houston’s car. Houston fired a shot from a handgun at the Clawson man but missed him, police said.
