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The man who police swept Kalamazoo County gunning down victims at random this weekend appeared in court on Monday to begin to respond to charges of murder, assault and firearms.

The seemingly random violence allegedly unleashed by Jason Brian Dalton left even with refrigerated authorities. In an interview with CNN affiliate WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas called the shooting "your worst nightmare."

According to authorities, Dalton, married with two children, shot eight people in three locations across the county 321,000 people on Saturday night as Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey Introduction to CNN on Monday were "very deliberate killings."

Among the killings, the driver picked Uber rates, according to a source close to the investigation.

"This is not rushed in any way or form," Getting said the shooting, two of which were captured on video. "They were intentional, deliberate and I do not mean casually done. Coldly fact is what I mean."

Dalton was charged Monday with six counts of murder, two counts of assault with intent to commit murder and eight counts of firearms.

He appeared in court via video, with dark glasses and an orange jumpsuit. He showed no emotion as the charges against him were read. A judge denied bail.

The only thing that seems to connect the victims? According to police, just come and semiautomatic pistol - which is consistent with the shell casings found in every scene, authorities said.

"There is no connection that we have been able to establish between any of the three groups of victims each other, any of the three groups of victims with the accused," Getting said CNN's "New Day". "It is what it is, well, it was random violence without provocation."

Kalamazoo victims were to buy a car, enjoying a night out

The Dalton family issued a statement, expressing his condolences to the families of the victims.

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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."