KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — A man charged with six counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder in a series of random shootings in western Michigan has been denied bail.
Forty-five-year-old Jason Dalton of Kalamazoo Township made his first court appearance Monday and indicated that he understood the charges.
The charges filed Monday by Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting also include weapons violations. The murder charges carry a mandatory life sentence.
Dalton was arrested Sunday in Kalamazoo. Police say the rampage began about 6 p.m. Saturday outside an apartment complex, where a woman was seriously wounded. A little more than four hours later, a father and son were fatally shot while looking at vehicles at a car dealership. Fifteen minutes after that, five people were shot in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant.
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What is it with Cracker Barrel? We had an incident in Ohio where a man went to a Cracker Barrel where his wife and kids were eating and killed his whole family.
Ubiquity and popularity?
I guess, goodness. Terrible.
I assume that the suspect will also be under suicide watch.That he could conduct his normal Uber business in the midst of this murder spree shows remarkable compartmenting.
Waiting to hear Diane Sawyer snagged an interview.