KALAMAZOO COUNTY, Mich. — Kalamazoo Township police spent Wednesday afternoon investigating a shooting at the corner of Waverly Drive and Gertrude Street. Police Chief Bryan Ergang said they believe a shooting occurred outside a home there and involved a minivan that was parked in front.
“We have two adult males who are victims,” Chief Ergang said. “One is in critical condition and both are being treated currently at local hospitals.”
Chief Ergang said they’re also looking for the suspects involved and a maroon minivan that they were driving. He added that there may have been a silver minivan involved as well. Police are investigating whether children were inside the home when the shooting happened.
“We’re still trying to gather a lot of information from various locations,” Chief Ergang said. “[There's] A lot of people to talk to. There’s a lot of video to go through. So we’re working through that now.”
He added that the incident on Wallace Avenue near Dearborn Avenue, located a half-mile away, was not related to the shooting. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety, along with their SWAT team, surrounded a home on Wallace and gave verbal commands to a man they thought was inside.
“The incident on Wallace was a witness report that the vehicle that we’re looking for in this incident may have been over there,” Chief Ergang said. “We took some precautionary measures and determined shortly that that was not involved.”
Another precautionary measure police implemented was checking if nearby Northeastern Elementary was affected by the shooting on Waverly, he said. Police learned quickly that classes were not in session due to the Thanksgiving holiday break.
“There was no school,” Chief Ergang said. “That’s one of the protocols that we started right away was to initiate a lockdown. Fortunately, no school today.”
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