ALPINE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The Kent County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a shooting left one woman dead and two others injured Saturday morning on the northern end of the Grand Rapids metro area.
Deputies were dispatched around 2:30 a.m. to Northwest Tabor Road in Alpine Township after a neighbor in the Westgate Village Townhouses reported a loud noise and requested a wellness check on a nearby house.
“I was woken up by police sirens around 2:30,” said neighbor Clara Loisch. Another neighbor, Nathan Schaner, adds, "The first thing I wake up to at 2:30 is just gunshots going off. I think up to 10.”
When FOX 17 spoke to Schaner, he said that while he was on the phone with dispatch, he saw the suspect walk out of the suspect's home and into his car. The sheriff's office then got another call reporting the shooting, this time from one of the victims.
“It was almost reassuring how quickly the police were able to get here, knowing that within five minutes of me making the phone call, they were able to show up and be the guys on the scene," Schaner said.
When they got to the scene, deputies found two victims with serious injuries — a 30-year-old woman and a 36-year-old woman who were treated and hospitalized. Deputies also found a third woman between 50 and 60 years old, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
The two surviving victims are in stable condition.
“It’s unnerving," Loisch said. "You always think it's farther away than it is, until it happens five or six doors down from where you are.”
Deputies say the incident probably started as a domestic dispute.
Investigators spent more than 4 hours searching for a suspect who drove off from the scene. Described as a man in his forties, deputies took him into custody around 7:00 a.m.
No other suspects are believed to be involved in the shooting, per the sheriff's office.
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to contact the Kent County Sheriff's Office at (616) 632-6100. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through Silent Observer at (616) 774-2345.
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