BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) – A Marshall woman says her son was “murdered” by police last September.
Charese Watson along with about two dozen supporters protested outside of the Calhoun County Courthouse Monday afternoon.
The protest took place one week after Prosecutor David Gilbert determined that two Battle Creek Police officers and a Calhoun County Sheriff’s deputy were justified in their actions because they felt their lives were in danger and that no charges would be filed in the shooting of 22-year-old Andrew Blowers on September 5.
The shooting took place after Battle Creek Police tried to stop a reckless vehicle in the area of Dickman Road and M-66 as the driver was swerving into oncoming traffic lanes. The two officers believed that the driver may have been intoxicated.
Michigan State Police said a 90 mile per hour chase on M-66 eventually ended in the Fort Custer Industrial Park. Officers approached the vehicle on foot but then the vehicle was driven toward the officers and that’s when all three officers fired shots.
A Battle Creek Police cruiser was struck before the suspect vehicle crashed into some nearby woods. Blowers was pronounced dead at the scene.
The State Police later said a preliminary report from an autopsy indicates Blowers died from multiple gunshot wounds and not from the injuries he suffered in a vehicle crash.
Watson and her attorney claim her son was shot in the back 16 times by police.
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