Gunman Kills at Least 7 in Michigan
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/us/kalamazoo-michigan-random-shootings.html?_r=0
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CHARTER TOWNSHIP, Mich. — At least seven people in the Kalamazoo,
Mich., area were killed and at least one more was injured Saturday night
by a gunman who the police said randomly opened fire as he drove around
the city and its suburbs.
Several anxious hours later, Undersheriff Paul Matyas of Kalamazoo County said in a text message that a suspect was in custody.
Shootings were reported at a Cracker Barrel restaurant, a Ford dealership and other locations, according to WOOD-TV,
the local NBC affiliate. At the Cracker Barrel, in Texas Township, the
victims were shot as they sat in their cars, according to the television
report.
At
4 a.m. on Sunday, the Cracker Barrel parking lot remained wrapped in
yellow crime scene tape, but the scene was quiet except for the hum of
idling news trucks and cars whizzing past on the interstate below. The
five people killed there included a 9-year-old, the authorities said.
A father and his son were killed at the car dealership, the authorities said.
Two
more shootings occurred at an intersection near the restaurant and at a
residence in Richland Township, where a woman was shot multiple times,
according to WOOD-TV.
“They
all appear to be related,” Undersheriff Matyas said. “We have multiple
people dead. In summary, what it looks like is we have somebody just
driving around, finding people and shooting them dead in their tracks.”
Lt. Dale Hintz of the Michigan State Police told WWMT-TV that the gunman had been driving around Kalamazoo County in a dark blue Chevrolet HHR.
The
suspect in custody was driving a vehicle that matched that car’s
description, the authorities said, and the Chevrolet also appeared to
match images of a vehicle from surveillance video at the Ford
dealership.
The authorities described the suspect as a 45-year-old from Kalamazoo.
“It’s very likely this is the person, but we have more work to do to be 100 percent sure,” Chief Hadley said.
He
said that officers from the Department of Public Safety and deputies
from the Kalamazoo Sheriff’s Department spotted the suspect’s car in
downtown Kalamazoo, pulled him over and arrested him.
No shots were fired during the arrest, Chief Hadley said.
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