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5th Anniversary of ‘Kalamazoo Shootings’ Still Brings Shock
5th Anniversary of ‘Kalamazoo Shootings’ Still Brings Shock
5th Anniversary of ‘Kalamazoo Shootings’ Still Brings Shock
Five years. It doesn't seem possible it's been five years. The unthinkable happened five years ago. February 20th, 2016. Jason Dalton killed six people, injured two others. For his crime, he's been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. We now know this horrible night simply as the Kalamazoo Shootings.
Dalton Trial Delayed
Dalton Trial Delayed
Dalton Trial Delayed
Accused killer Jason Dalton won’t be going on trial next month as planned, after his lawyer filed an appeal of a recent judge’s ruling.   Dalton is accused of murdering six people and seriously wounding two others, including young Abigail Kopf of Battle Creek...
Book Drive For Nye Ends Friday
Book Drive For Nye Ends Friday
Book Drive For Nye Ends Friday
One of the latest efforts the Kalamazoo Strong organization has undertaken - a book drive for the library at Calhoun Community High School - ends Friday. The drive is coordinated with a planned dedication of the library in the name of Mary Jo Nye, the former CCHS teacher who was lost in the Kalamazoo County shootings on February 20...
BC, Kzoo Collaboration
BC, Kzoo Collaboration
BC, Kzoo Collaboration
Battle Creek Mayor Dave Walters tells WBCK a collaboration between the city and Kalamazoo is likely to be hammered out as it relates to emergencies like the Kalamazoo shootings two months ago. Walters said one meeting has already taken place between he and Kalamazoo Mayor Bobby Hopewell, and also involved city managers Rebecca Fleury and Jim Ritsema...
Alert Bills Get Support
Alert Bills Get Support
Alert Bills Get Support
Representative Jon Hoadley (D-Kalamazoo) tells WBCK a bi-partisan proposal in the Michigan House of Representatives to develop a Amber Alert-style system for other emergencies is likely to pass easily in the House and Senate. The proposed system, inspired by the Kalamazoo shootings which happened exactly two months ago Wednesday, would allow law enforcement to deploy a significant alert warning vi
Dalton Case Next Steps
Dalton Case Next Steps
Dalton Case Next Steps
The outcome of a psychiatric evaluation is awaited in the Jason Dalton case in Kalamazoo. Local attorney Rich Migala tells WBCK how such an evaluation is ordered, what the procedures are and what the possible next steps will be in the case...
Rep Urges Talk on Guns
Rep Urges Talk on Guns
Rep Urges Talk on Guns
In a guest column last week in the Detroit Free Press, Kalamazoo Representative Jon Hoadley implored everyone for a practical discussion about gun violence, this after his community was thrust into the random-shooting-national-spotlight...
Mayor: 'We Are Not Immune'
Mayor: 'We Are Not Immune'
Mayor: 'We Are Not Immune'
Kalamazoo Mayor Bobby Hopewell has been thrust into the national spotlight over the last week and a half, with the news of the spree shooting in his city on February 20. He has responded to media inquiries from all over the country after the shootings in which six people perished, including four from Battle Creek...

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