kalamazoo shootings

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.

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...

At a candlelight vigil Monday evening, a permanent memorial facility to honor the Kalamazoo Shootings one year ago was announced.

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...

Dashcam footage was released Monday, May 2, by the Kalamazoo City Attorney's Office.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...