For the first time since she and seven other people were shot in a shooting rampage in the Kalamazoo area three weeks ago, a photo of Abigail Kopf was released Sunday.
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Authorities say he carried out the shootings in between driving for Uber.
“They would make all kinds of noise to the point that when it’s quiet, we ask what’s going on”, Vicki Kopf said in a March 3 Enquirer report.
Carole Dalton told investigators she was stumped by what Jason Dalton told her the night of the shootings.
“Jason replied to (his wife) that she would see what he was talking about on the news and that it probably wouldn’t say his name, but as soon as she saw it on the news she would know it was him”, the report said. Police say the vehicle was damaged as he fled the scene after shooting a woman several times in the Meadows apartment complex.
“(Dalton) told her he would try to stop at their house… and grab some things for them, but that she couldn’t go back to work anymore, and the kids could not go back to school”, according to the report.
Dalton faces six charges of open murder, two counts of assault with intent to murder and eight counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
Dalton was arrested early Sunday morning after the attacks near Ransom and Porter streets in downtown Kalamazoo.
A judge has ordered Dalton undergo a mental competency exam with the Center for Forensic Psychiatry before moving the case forward.
Later, at about 10 p.m., Richard and Tyler Smith, were shot and killed while looking at cars at Seelye KIA on Stadium Drive. A total of six people were killed and two, including Abigail, were severely injured.
Top, left to right: Dorothy Brown, Barbara Hawthorne and Mary Jo Nye.
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Abigail was released from the hospital on Tuesday andmoved to an inpatient rehabilitation facility in Grand Rapids.
