Murder

A convicted murderer from Battle Creek is now looking at the potential of being granted parole following an original sentence of life in prison while he was a teenager.

Authorities were called to a residence on 30th Street in Almena Township Wednesday morning

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Events scheduled throughout the month seek to bring more awareness and get Michigan's current attorney general to take action. Billboards have begun popping up in and around Kalamazoo and Vicksburg with more still to come, including one in the state capital, Lansing.

The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety has identified the man who was murdered early Sunday morning on Kalamazoo's near North side. At the same time, they announced that a suspect has been taken into custody.

The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says their officers were called to the 500 block of Elizabeth St. in the Northside neighborhood just after 11:30pm Monday, in reports of a person being shot.

Besides crime statistics, the Chief will discuss what the BCPD is doing to prevent violence in the community, with both “violence interruption” and the crisis intervention program.

On Tuesday, 19-year-old Drequan Scott waived his preliminary examination on charges of open murder and using a gun in the commission of a crime, and the judge ordered him to trial.

Officers learned Monday night that a woman had just driven her vehicle into the Kalamazoo River, with her two children inside.

A witness said three men had been standing in a yard when a car pulled up and began shooting at them. The men in the yard returned fire.