She squeezed her mother’s hand.
The girl was critically injured in a shooting that killed four others in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Oshtemo Township, one of three shooting scenes where six people died Saturday night, Feb. 20,
The girl was pronounced dead, and authorities had relayed that information to the media. She was kept on life support at Bronson Methodist Hospital so her organs could be donated, but then she squeezed her mother's hand, said Michigan State Police First Lt. Dale Hinz.
Her death had even been reported to the media:
The seventh victim is a 14-year-old girl who was critically injured in a shooting that killed four others in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant, said First Lt. Dale Hinz of the Michigan State Police.
It was one of three shooting scenes that threw Kalamazoo County into chaos late Saturday and early Sunday as police tried to make sense of the seemingly random murder spree.
Now she is in very critical condition. No further word on her prognosis.
Mom probably feels like she just won a lottery just to have that hand squeezed. Most people don’t get their loved ones back after this sort of event.
So ….. another guy who decided the time had come to drive around in a car and just shoot people. That is all the motive we have currently.
Police have arrested the suspect, Jason Dalton, 45, an Uber driver that took a client on a wild ride during all of this.
Attention kzoo peeps!!! This Uber driver named Jason drives a silver Chevy Equinox is not a safe ride! A little bit ago my fiancé got a ride with him and he was driving very erratically. They sideswiped a car blowing through the stop sign at Henderson Castle and West Main Hill, and the driver continued driving.
“Then this man proceeded to drive 80 MPH down West Main, swerving in and out of oncoming traffic. Despite Matt pleading with this driver to pull over, he refused. Finally when he slowed down the vehicle, Matt was able to get out. He was acting completely normal throughout all of this erratic driving!
“Please share if you are in the kzoo area. Stay safe! 911 was called but surprisingly they didn’t seem all that concerned…I’m thankful that no one was hurt yet. Hoping this man will be arrested or hospitalized soon if he has a medical condition causing his behavior.
He reportedly took fares in-between the killings:
Police believe that the shooter was Jason Dalton, a 45-year-old man with no prior criminal convictions. Local news channel WOOD TV8 has confirmed that Dalton is an Uber driver. The police are now investigating a Facebook post that was allegedly made by the fiancé of one of the passengers that Dalton picked up in between the initial murder locations and the shooting at a Cracker Barrel in Texas Township.
Dalton shot and injured a woman in Richland Township and then made his way to a Kia dealership where he killed a father and son. Then the shooter killed four people and injured one in the parking lot of the Cracker Barrel, but not before picking up at least one fare and driving his passenger to a Fairfield Inn.
Arrested without apparent incident, of course.
Getting said Dalton was even-tempered and cooperative when police arrested him around 12:40 a.m. Sunday during a traffic stop in Kalamazoo. Officers found a semi-automatic handgun inside his vehicle.
Not tased, beaten, kicked, shot or killed. I feel a need to always point that out now.
He was going to be charged with 8 dead, now, with this hopeful story, it’s only 7.
The names have been withheld and I have seen nothing to suggest a place to donate anything to this family.