KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Kalamazoo Public Safety officers are continuing to investigate five separate shootings that occurred in less than a week.
The most recent happened in broad daylight, around 2 p.m. Saturday, when an 18-year-old was shot and injured while sitting in a parked vehicle on Clarence Street near Jackson Street in the city’s Edison Neighborhood.
Witnesses told officers that a backseat passenger in a passing car had fired shots into the parked vehicle, striking the victim. At around 4 p.m. Saturday, officers located the suspect’s vehicle on North Rose Street and arrested the driver on outstanding warrants, but the suspected shooter was still at large.
Two shootings happened on Friday, one around 1 a.m. on North Church Street near West Prouty Street, killing 54-year-old Kalamazoo resident Robert Earl Johnson when someone shot into his home.
On Sunday, October 11, police arrested the suspect, a 23-year-old Kalamazoo man, in the 2600 block of Airview Boulevard. He has been lodged on murder and weapon charges, as well as on an outstanding warrant, and will be arraigned on October 13.
The other Friday night shooting also happened on the Northside around 11:30 p.m. when a 58-year-old was shot and injured near the intersection of North Westnedge Avenue and Ada Street.
No suspect information has been released in that case.
Then last Wednesday, a 17-year-old was accidentally shot while others were handling a firearm on Airview Boulevard not far from the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport in the city’s Milwood Neighborhood. Authorities executed a search warrant at a nearby business and located the firearm they believe was used in the shooting incident.
Then the day before, around 11 p.m. Tuesday, 21-year-old Michael David-Jewel Clopton III was shot and killed on West Frank Street near North Burdick Street on the city’s Northside.
Anyone with information on any of these shootings should contact the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety at (269) 488-8911 or Silent Observer at (269) 343-2100.
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