Kalamazoo mass murder ', random violence caused entirely'

Police are investigating the scene in which four people were killed in vehicles outside the Cracker Barrel at 9 in Oshtemo Township. Police have arrested the suspect on Saturday, February 20, mass murder in Kalamazoo. The man was arrested in Ransom and Porter streets in downtown Kalamazoo at 12:40 am, said Lt. Dale Hinz first of the Michigan State Police. The man, who police said is a white man in his 50s, was driving a black Chevrolet HHR.

Kalamazoo, MI - Kalamazoo police dela chief is calling Saturday night mass shootings in the area of ​​"random acts of violence." Seven people on Saturday night and Sunday morning killed when a man in his 40s-de Kalamazoo shot people at random in three different scenarios.

"It's totally unprovoked acts, random violence," said the head of the Department of Public Safety Jeff Hadley Kalamazoo. "We're still trying to figure out why." Police arrested the man in a Chevrolet HHR in downtown Kalamazoo at 12:40 am, more than six hours after the first shooting occurred.

Hadley said after the arrest, the police asked if there was maybe other victims since the acts were so random, but it is currently not aware of any other people who were shot during the killing spree.

The first shooting occurred at Meadows Townhomes, 5066 Meadows Blvd., in Richland Township, at 6 pm There, a woman was shot in the parking lot. She remains in critical condition at Borgess Medical Center. A second shooting occurred at Seelye Ford in Kalamazoo 4102 Stadium Drive, shortly before 10:30 pm, where two men, believed to be a father and son waiting in a vehicle, were shot dead in parking.

Around 10:30 pm, four people were killed in the car in the parking lot of Cracker Barrel, 5581 Cracker Barrel Blvd., off street 9 in Oshtemo Township west of the city. A fifth person shot at the scene later died of his wounds. She was 14. Hadley announced this morning it would hold a press conference at the headquarters of the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety at 7am

In the press release announcing the press conference, Hadley said the suspect is in custody and "there is no danger or threat to the community."

Related eXtra/News AMERICA business Kalamazoo news TRAVEL USA world