A Dearborn police officer has been suspended without pay and will undergo additional training after a department review determined the officer failed to properly respond to a resident’s concerns about his safety — the same resident who police said was targeted and struck by a vehicle in late August.

"It was determined that the interaction did not reflect the standards of service that our community expects and deserves," said Police Chief Issa Shahin in a statement on Friday, Sept. 5.

The victim, 40-year-old Haider Alfadawi, was crossing Michigan Avenue on foot late at night on Aug. 23 when an SUV struck him in "an act of vehicular assault,” according to law enforcement. Officers found him unresponsive with life-threatening injuries before he was taken to a local hospital , where he

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