“I anticipate out of that review will come six counts of murder, two counts of assault with intent to commit murder, and eight charges of what we call felony firearm, using a firearm during the commission of a felony”, Getting told CNN on Monday.
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The gunman’s first victim was a woman who was with her three children outside an apartment complex when she was shot, he said. But police later said that she was hospitalized in serious condition. There was nothing in Dalton’s background “that would lead us to believe he was capable of this type of behavior”, Hadley said, according to reports from NBC News.
Michigan State Police said the shooting began at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday with the report of a woman wounded outside an apartment building. Four hours later, authorities said there was another shooting at a vehicle dealership, where Tyler Smith, 17, and his father, Richard Smith, 53, were killed.
Fifteen minutes after that, five people were shot in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant.
The Kalamazoo killings were the latest in a string of United States mass shootings that include the December 2 massacre in San Bernardino, California that left 14 people dead, and the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre that killed 26, including 20 children.
Mellen said he also tried warning the ride-hailing service.
Dalton was driving for Uber the night of the shootings and even picked up and dropped off passengers between attacks, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
Flowers and crime scene tape at the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel where a gunman went on a shooting rampage, on February 21, 2016 in Kalamazoo. “It is frustrating and we’re continuing to figure out any motives that we could latch onto to give us some reason of understanding of why these things occurred but we just don’t have that yet”, said Chief Hadley.
An eighth victim remains hospitalized with severe injuries, Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeffrey Getting said.
Kalamazoo Public Safety says of the suspect: “His demeanor was even-tempered upon arrest according to the prosecutor”.
He said he called the police after he got out of the vehicle.
The Kalamazoo shootings come as Uber is facing a range of regulatory and safety issues.
While Dalton was known to like guns, “there wasn’t anything that would put him on the police’s radar as someone who would be likely to do to something like this”, he said. Enlarge Andraya Croft/AP The 14-year-old girl was critically wounded in the Cracker Barrel shooting. Authorities have named the victims as Mary Lou Nye, 62, of Baroda; Mary Jo Nye, 60; 68-year-old Barbara Hawthorne and Dorothy Brown, 74, all of Battle Creek.
Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas said Dalton had brief conversations with his victims before shooting them at point blank range.
That was the start of a very deadly night in Kalamazoo, police say, at the hands of Dalton. He says he spoke Monday with the mayor of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and with the local police chief and sheriff.
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“Clearly we are going to need to do more if we’re going to keep innocent Americans safe”, he said, urging “a common sense” approach to gun control “in a bipartisan way without some of the ideological rhetoric that so often surrounds the issue”.
