SCOTTS (WKZO-AM/FM) — Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s detectives say they were initially led to believe that a domestic dispute turned suicidal during an investigation into the shooting death of a man near Scotts on Feb. 14, but now that they’ve looked at the evidence, they think it was something more sinister.
Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a male with a gunshot wound in the 9400 block of South 36th Street on Valentine’s Day.
They found the body of 35-year-old Gregory Boer in a basement bedroom with a single gunshot wound to the head.
They found his 43-year-old estranged wife, Janel Boer, bleeding from a gunshot wound to the arm in the garage. She initially told detectives that they had had an argument, that he shot her, and then killed himself.
Undersheriff Pali Matyas said the forensic teams went to work and found the evidence did not support her story. Instead, it suggested she shot him, then staged it to make it match the story she told detectives.
Matyas isn’t offering specifics at this point.
Boer was tracked using her cell phone Wednesday and arrested for homicide. She is scheduled to be formally charged during a bond hearing on Thursday.
