– ‘Your worst nightmare’ –
The shootings began at 6pm Saturday.
“What it looks like is we have somebody driving around, finding people and shooting them dead in their tracks,” Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas told local media.
“This is your worst nightmare, when you have somebody just driving around randomly killing people,” he added.
The gunman’s first victim was a woman who was with her three children outside an apartment complex when she was shot, he said.
She was seriously wounded but is expected to survive.
The gunman next struck at 10pm, killing an 18-year-old boy and an adult male at a car dealership, according to Getting. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said the victims were father and son.
The last and deadliest shooting came 10 to 15 minutes later at the Cracker Barrel restaurant where four more people were killed, according to Getting.
Security video at the dealership and the restaurant helped police identify the shooter’s car, and Dalton was arrested about two hours later when a sheriff’s deputy saw his car leaving a local bar in downtown Kalamazoo.
“He followed the car. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety was able to mobilize people as a backup. They pulled the car over without incident. They were able to make an arrest of the suspect without any significant incident,” Getting said.
Police seized a semi-automatic handgun and “additional evidence” from the car, the prosecutor added.
Dalton is married and has two children, ages 15 and 10, neighbours told the Detroit Free Press newspaper. They described him as a “nice guy” who sold insurance policies and was a hobby mechanic.
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