Tom GantertDelta Township, MI – A 26-year-old Michigan man who was firing a gun on a busy street was shot and killed by another man with a concealed pistol license.
A 22-year-old man who was driving his car at about 8:25 a.m. on June 15 stopped in the eastbound lane of Saginaw Highway, according to the Lansing State Journal.
The 26-year-old man then walked over to the car and pointed his gun at the 22-year-old man.
That’s when the 22-year-old man fired from his vehicle and hit the 26-year-old man, the Lansing State Journal reported.
Eaton County Sheriff Tom Reich said they had received numerous reports that the 26-year-old man had been walking and firing his gun in the air and then pointing his gun at motorists, according to the sheriff’s department Facebook post.
When police got to the scene, the 26-year-old man was dead, according to the Lansing State Journal.
WILX reported that the 26-year-old was dressed in a black hooded sweatshirt and jeans and was lying in the middle of the highway with gunshot wounds. There was a handgun found next to the man’s body. The man’s last known address was in Walker, Michigan, about 70 miles away from the scene of the shooting.
The police interviewed the shooter but didn’t take him into custody, Sheriff Reich said.
Police didn’t release names of the shooter or the man who was shot and killed.
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