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Police: 6 dead, 3 injured in ‘random’ Michigan shootings Police: 7 die in ‘random’ Michigan shootings; suspect held
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KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A man drove around a western Michigan city shooting people at three locations Saturday, including a Cracker Barrel restaurant and a Ford dealership, leaving six dead and three injured, two of them critically, police said. KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A gunman drove in and around a western Michigan city randomly shooting people in the parking lots of a restaurant, car dealership and apartment complex, killing at least seven, including a 14-year-old girl, authorities said.
Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas said a suspect was detained early Sunday in downtown Kalamazoo. Matyas said weapons were found in the man’s vehicle and he did not resist when approached by law enforcement officers. A 45-year-old man was arrested early Sunday in downtown Kalamazoo following a massive manhunt after the shootings began about 6 p.m. Saturday, authorities said.
“The threat to the public is over,” he said early Sunday. A 14-year-old girl was among five people fatally shot outside a Cracker Barrel restaurant, said Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas, while a father and son were killed at the dealership. A woman who was shot multiple times at an apartment complex was in serious condition early Sunday, Matyas said, correcting an earlier statement in which he’d said nine people had been shot.
Police described the suspect taken into custody as a 45-year-old white male from Kalamazoo County. Officers are questioning him, Michigan State Police Lt. Dale Hinz told WWMT-TV. Matyas said earlier that authorities did not believe the shootings were targeted at specific people, describing them as “our worst case scenario.”
Four of the six people killed were at the Cracker Barrel, according to police. Also shot at the restaurant was a 9-year-old girl, who is in criticial condition. “These are random murders,” he said.
Two others, a father and son, were fatally shot at the car dealership. Matyas told WWMT-TV that the suspect did not resist when approached by law enforcement officers in downtown Kalamazoo, and that weapons were found in the man’s vehicle.
Matyas said earlier that police believed the shootings were random and not targeting particular people, describing it as a “worst case scenario.” “The threat to the public is over,” he said.
He said the shootings began about 6 p.m. local time. In addition to the restaurant and the car dealership, the third location was an apartment complex. All of the shootings were in the parking lots.
Kalamazoo is about 160 miles west of Detroit.Kalamazoo is about 160 miles west of Detroit.
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