Kalamazoo Uber Driver Killing 6 in Shooting Spree in Michigan (Killer Jason Dalton)
Kalamazoo Uber Driver Killing 6 in
Shooting Spree in
Michigan (
Killer Jason Dalton)
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Picking targets seemingly at random, a gunman went on a hours-long rampage in
Kalamazoo, Michigan,
Saturday night, driving around the city and opening fire on unsuspecting victims — a woman outside an apartment complex, a father and son eyeing cars at an auto dealership, a group of women parked at a
Cracker Barrel restaurant.
Six people of them died, and another two were seriously injured — including a 14-year-old girl who had been pronounced brain dead but squeezed her mother's hand as doctors were preparing to harvest her organs, police said.
Amid the carnage, her survival stood out as a miracle, authorities said.
The suspected killer, a 45-year-old Uber driver named Jason
Brian Dalton, was in custody Sunday but had not been charged, police said.
Dalton has no record of criminal history, nor anything in his background "that would lead us to believe he was capable of this type of behavior," Kalamazoo
Police Chief Jeff Hadley said
Sunday morning.
Image: Jason Brian Dalton.
Jason Brian Dalton.
Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office
Dalton, who is expected to be charged Monday, apparently acted alone and there was no continuing threat to the community, Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting said.
Uber's chief security officer,
Joe Sullivan, said Dalton had passed a background check to become a driver. The company was "horrified and heartbroken" and had offered to help investigators, he said.
Local
NBC affiliate
WOOD reported that Dalton may have taken fares in between attacks.
The first shooting occurred around 6 p.m. local time at the Meadows
Town Homes in the city's northwest, where one woman was shot several times but survived, police said.
The next burst of gunfire happened more than three hours later, when police were called to a car dealership, where
Rich Smith and his 17-year-old son,
Tyler, were shot dead, authorities said.
The father and child were looking at cars when they were gunned down, according to
Robin Buchler, the superintendent of Mattwan
High School, where Tyler was a student.
A few minutes later, the gunman approached a
Chevrolet Cruze and a
Oldsmobile Silhouette minivan in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel. He briefly spoke to the people inside and then "unloaded his weapon into both cars," Kalamazoo County Undersheriff
Paul Matyas said. All four people in the Cruze, including a 14-year-old girl, were hit, along with the sole occupant of the minivan. All but the girl died.
Michigan State Police identified the dead Cracker Barrel victims as
Mary Lou Nye, 63, of
Baroda, Michigan;
Mary Jo Nye, 60, of
Battle Creek, Michigan;
Dorothy Brown, 74, of
Battle Creek; and
Barbara Hawthorne, 68, of Battle Creek.