LAWRENCE -- A 71 year old woman who tried to calm down an unruly patron at the Red Arrow Bar in Lawrence was nearly shot. The 32 year old Hispanic male had been harassing several women at the bar. The woman began to talk to him and touched his arm. That’s when he pulled out a small caliber handgun, asked her what she thought she was doing touching him. Another patron grabbed his arm and the bullet went into the ceiling, instead of the woman. The Hispanic male fled and police have not yet found him, but if they do they plan to charge him with attempted murder.
BANGOR TOWNSHIP -- Van Buren County Deputies are investigating a crash Saturday night that left a man hanging from his seat belts in his overturned car on 62nd St. at 39th Ave. in Bangor Township late Saturday night. Deputies say it appears that 49-year-old Frankie Bailey of Gobles entered a curve with too much speed, lost control and rolled the car over. Rescue crews had to break out the back window and cut him out of the belts. He was airlifted to Bronson Hospital with multiple injuries.
BATTLE CREEK -- Battle Creek police are looking for a man who tried to rape a 24 year old woman after she left work Friday night at about 10:00 in the 50 block of W. Michigan. Police say he slashed her with what may have been a box cutter, ripped her shirt off and threatened to kill her if she didn’t do what he said. She struggled but he didn’t flee until witnesses across the street started yelling at him. No description of the man was released.
