Bouquets of flowers were piling up outside the Texas Township Cracker Barrel Monday, Feb. 22, 2016 following the Saturday shooting that killed four women and wounded a teenager.
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“I would prefer just to remain silent”, Dalton said when an 8th District Court judge asked him for comment as he appeared at his arraignment via video. He has requested a court appointed attorney.
Investigators counted three crime scenes in Kalamazoo County: an apartment complex, a auto dealership and a Cracker Barrel parking lot.
We would also like to express our prayers and concern for the two persons who are now hospitalized. The murder charges carry a mandatory life sentence.
A little more than four hours later and 15 miles away, a father and his 17-year-old son were fatally shot while looking at cars at a vehicle dealership. Dalton is charged with multiple counts of murder in a series of random shootings in western MI. But there was no indication that he was prohibited from owning the weapons, said Donald Dawkins, a Detroit-based spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which was assisting police. Two people who survived are in the hospital.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says “the victims and their families – and the entire Kalamazoo area – should be in everyone’s thoughts” after a shooting rampage that killed at least six people.
The Associated Press is not releasing the girl’s name.
Tammy George said the woman who was shot outside the apartment building is her next-door neighbor. Police say he has no known criminal history.
Uber’s chief security officer told CNN that Dalton passed a background check.
Uber said that the company was contacted by several passengers Saturday about Dalton’s erratic driving but that there was no way for any background check to have predicted anything like the incident.
Questions about motive and Dalton’s frame of mind are “going to be the hardest to answer for anybody”, Fuller said. He expects some answers to emerge in court, but he doubts they will be satisfying.
He was arrested early Sunday in Kalamazoo. He said Dalton introduced himself as “Me-Me” and that he sat in front, since Dalton had his dog in the backseat.
The family said it planned to help authorities with the investigation.
He says Dalton was a good football player who wrestled and was on the track team, and “never got into trouble”.
Pfaff said he instantly remembered Dalton when he saw his photograph on the news Sunday. “He walked up to these people and he shot them”.
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The violence in Kalamazoo did not last a few bloody minutes, as it had in the San Bernardino or Newtown, Conn., mass shootings, but came in waves over five hours.
Then, after Dalton took a telephone call about a mile from Mellen’s house, Dalton started driving “really erratically”, Mellen said.
Police were investigating reports Dalton also may have driven customers of the Uber car-hailing service the night of the rampage.
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Initial checks with a key federal agency indicate Dalton was unknown to both law enforcement and counter terrorism agencies for having any known connection to extremist groups.
