SPRINGFIELD (WKZO-AM)– Investigators in Calhoun County say a domestic dispute between a man, his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend over child custody escalated into gunplay when they confronted each other at the new boyfriend’s home on 14th Street and Avenue B in Springfield just after 11 a.m. Thursday.
The woman and her children were at the home at the time. Calhoun County Sheriff’s deputies say after a verbal exchange with a former boyfriend and her sister, the new-boyfriend allegedly went inside, got a gun and fired two rounds in the general direction of the ex-boyfriend and his sister, who had arrived in a pick-up.
They fled, hitting a parked car in the driveway, which police say prompted the new boyfriend to take two more shots at the fleeing pickup.
“The twenty-five-year-old Battle Creek female was treated by the Battle Creek Fire Department for a laceration to the hand,” a statement from the department said.
The sister suffered a minor injury.
She and her brother called for police assistance. The man with the gun initially refused to come out of the house but eventually surrendered to deputies. Charges are pending.
