BATTLE CREEK (WKZO AM/FM) — A 23-year-old from Battle Creek is in custody after police say he used a hand gun to threaten people in a home during the dinner hour.
Officers were dispatched to Illinois St. for a report of a man with a gun at around 6:30 last night.
As they approached they spotted a man in a hurry to leave and gave chase. The suspect tossed a gun to the ground just before officers caught up to him.
They learned that he had invaded the home and used to gun to threaten 9 people, including six children.
A check of the serial number on the gun turned up a report that it had been stolen.
The man is being held for home invasion, a gun charge and for resisting. More charges may be coming.
MUSKEGON (WKZO AM/FM) — It took all week, but they have finally seated a jury in Muskegon County for the second murder trial of Jeffrey Willis.
He is accused of snatching and killing Jessica Heeringa, a young mom and gas station clerk who disappeared five years ago. Prosecutor DJ Hilson says opening statements are now scheduled for Tuesday morning.
It was more difficult than usual to seat a jury due to all the publicity this case and Willis’s previous trial generated. Willis was convicted in November of killing jogger Rebekah Bletsch near her Dalton Township home in 2014, and has yet to be tried for allegedly attempting to kidnap a teenager in 2016.
