armed robbery

About 7pm Monday, a 21-year-old Battle Creek man called police after he says someone threatened him with a gun at the Thunderbird Trailer Park in Springfield.

During a press conference Thursday morning, BCPD Sgt. Case said that further evidence uncovered during their investigation on January 2 into the death of 58-year-old Howard Gillette shed more light on the chain of events involved in this incident.

The Battle Creek Police Department says that around 8:08am Thursday, their officers were called to a business in the 500 block of Capital Ave SW.

Kalamazoo police officers responded to an area in the 2800 block of Portage Rd.

The incident happened around 3:40pm Tuesday, where a woman had been sitting in her car in Battle Creek when a man approached her and opened her car door.

The KDPS says that around 1am Thursday, a Kalamazoo resident was approached by two men in the area of South Pitcher St. and Walnut St. The men allegedly hit him with an object, and stole his wallet at gun point before fleeing on foot.

At approximately 1:30am Friday, Calhoun County Sheriff's deputies were called to an attempted Armed Robbery.

Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the Seville Apartments near South Drake Rd. and W. KL Ave. in Oshtemo Township, after a 35-year-old Battle Creek man said he was robbed. Around 10pm Monday, the victim had been getting into his car when two teens approached the vehicle armed with a handgun, demanding the man’s property.

The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says that the two entered a business on Mt. Olivet Rd. around 10pm Monday, one armed with a handgun; the two jumped the counter and forced the clerk to the floor, and stole money and cigarettes before fleeing.

29-year-old Matthew Steppenwolf had been charged with multiple felonies, including armed robbery, arson, carjacking and firearms crimes; last week, he pleaded guilty but mentally ill to those charges, with other felonies being dropped, including ethnic intimidation.