The Latest: Police ID suspect in fatal Michigan shootings
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}
The Latest on The Latest in the shootings in the Kalamazoo, Michigan area (all times local):
6:50 a.m.
Police have identified the suspect they believe is responsible for a series of random shootings in western Michigan that have left at least seven people dead.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}
Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Chief Jeff Hadley tells The Associated Press that the suspect arrested early Sunday in Kalamazoo is 45-year-old Jason Dalton of Kalamazoo County.
Hadley says Dalton has no known criminal history.
Police say the rampage began about 6 p.m. Saturday outside an apartment complex on the eastern edge of the Kalamazoo County, where a woman was shot multiple times and seriously wounded. A little more than four hours later and 15 miles away, a father and son were fatally shot while looking at vehicles at a car dealership.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}
Fiftee minutes after that, five people — including a 14-year-old girl — were gunned down in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant.
Dalton remained jailed Sunday.
___
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}
6:30 a.m.
At least seven people are dead after a series of western Michigan shootings in which authorities say they believe a gunman chose victims at random.
Authorities say a 45-year-old man was arrested early Sunday in Kalamazoo.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}
Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas says the rampage began about 6 p.m. Saturday outside an apartment complex on the eastern edge of the Kalamazoo County, where a woman was shot multiple times and seriously wounded.
A little more than four hours later and 15 miles away, a father and son were fatally shot while looking at vehicles at a car dealership.
Matyas says 15 minutes after that, five people — including a 14-year-old girl — were gunned down in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}
Matyas described the killings as "random murders."