KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – A 40-year-old Kalamazoo man has been arraigned on an Open Murder charge in the shooting death of a homeless man Sunday morning.
Jason Lawrence Blough appeared in Kalamazoo County District Court Tuesday afternoon. Bond was denied by Judge Kathleen Hemingway.
Sunday at around 10:30 a.m. the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety responded to the report of a dead body in the 800 Block of East Crosstown Pkwy. They found 62-year-old Heriberto Contreras of Kalamazoo dead in an outside area commonly frequented by the unhoused. Blough was identified as a suspect and was arrested later Sunday.
The killing of Contreras is the 21st murder in the City of Kalamazoo this year.
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