6 dead in Kalamazoo County shooting spree

The source, who is not authorized to speak to media, said investigators believe Jason Brian Dalton was even looking for fares after the final shooting of a almost seven-hour killing rampage.

Getting said Dalton was even-tempered and cooperative when police arrested him around 12:40 a.m. Sunday during a traffic stop in Kalamazoo.

Posted about 6pm local time, shortly before the shooting started, the post described an Uber driver who “sideswiped” another auto, speed through suburbia about 80kph and refused to let passengers exit the vehicle. A total of five people were shot.

“These weren’t sudden explosions, this was done intentionally”, Getting told reporters during a briefing. That is the particular shooting that they are investigating.

“As we were leaving, we could see police cars and flashing lights just north of us”, ” she said, “but nothing more”.

The four people killed outside the restaurant were identified as 62-year-old Mary Lou Nye of Baroda and 60-year-old Mary Jo Nye, 68-year-old Barbara Hawthorne and 74-year-old Dorothy Brown, all of Battle Creek.

The man suspected of murdering six people and injuring two others in Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a registered Uber driver.

Dalton had been working as driver for the ride-hailing app Uber and may have picked up customers during a portion of the shooting spree, The Detroit Free Press reported.

Uber spokeswoman Nairi Hourdajian confirmed Dalton had driven for Uber.

All three shooting incidents appear to be related, authorities say. The people who were shot had no apparent connection to the gunman or to each other, according to police.

The shootings have intensified a long-running debate over proposed restrictions to gun access and made gun control a recurring issue in the run-up to presidential elections in November.

“In this particular case, we’re just thankful it ended the way it did – before he could really kill anybody else”, Matyas said. He is in police custody and is expected to be arraigned Monday on murder charges. Then he drove off, Block said.

The first shooting occurred around 6 p.m. local time at the Meadows Town Homes in the city’s northwest, where one woman was shot several times but survived, police said.

Flowers are placed in front of a vehicle dealership, where a father and son were shot to death.

Four people were reportedly massacred at a Cracker Barrel restaurant including a 14-year-old girl. A 14-year-old girl was wounded.

Tara Egnatuk, assistant director of the Calhoun Community High School, said she worked for six years with Nye at the alternative school that serves many at-risk students.