The prosecutor’s office says it doesn’t know if Dalton has an attorney.
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Seated at the Kalamazoo County jail, Dalton showed little reaction as he listened to the charges against him during Monday’s arraignment by video. Cory Ghiringhelli told the court had admitted to investigators “that he took people’s lives”. MI does not have the death penalty.
Fuller said investigators are particularly interested in communication between Jason Dalton, the man arrested in the shootings, and Uber, as well as between the company and customers he might have driven.
Derek says he sat in the front seat while his wife and in-laws sat in the back.
Once he got to his friend’s house, he told his fiancée what happened, who in turn posted a warning to friends on Facebook.
Uber said riders complained Saturday about Dalton’s driving. But if it’s a complaint about bad driving, Uber reaches out to the drivers first to resolve the situation.
WOOD-TV reported that another man told the station he had sought an Uber ride as a safer alternative to walking with a killer on the loose, only to apparently end up in Dalton’s auto.
Sullivan said he’s satisfied with the company’s response to the tragedy.
But critics, including taxi companies that compete with Uber, say the vehicle service could do more to protect passengers.
Police have not yet provided a motive for the shooting, and Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller is pessimistic that any motive that prosecutors do determine will offer any sort of clarity.
The family goes on to say it will cooperate in the investigation.
Several hours later, police said Dalton opened fire again at a auto dealership, where he shot and killed a father and son.
Minutes after that, five people were shot in a parking lot at a restaurant. Four of the victims in the two cars died, police said.
The 14-year-old girl was first thought to be dead too, but as the hospital was preparing to remove her organs to be donated, she squeezed her mother’s hand.
Uber said it was “devastated” by the mass shooting in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The prosecutor said Dalton called the woman by a different name only “to get her attention” before shooting her outside of her apartment. He expects some answers to emerge in court, but he doubts they will be satisfying. “It’s not something we’re ever going to be able to understand or answer with satisfaction”. Uber, meanwhile, instituted a policy a year ago that prohibits driver and passengers from possessing firearms.
Dalton, who was wearing glasses, took a deep breath when the judge announced that the charges included the attempted murder of a 14-year-old girl.
“Our hope is for peace and healing for the victims, the families of the victims, the Kalamazoo community and those touched by these events throughout the nation”, the family said in a statement released Monday to the Free Press.
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A woman who was wounded during a deadly shooting spree in MI used her body to shield several children from gunfire, authorities have said.
