[url]http://www.freep.com/article/20110707/NEWS06/110707048/1001/rss01[/url]
[quote]GRAND RAPIDS -- Grand Rapids Police Chief Kevin Belk says the suspect in seven Michigan shooting deaths in Michigan was holding two hostages during a standoff with police.
Belk said neither hostage is believed to be injured.
He also says police are communicating with 34-year-old Rodrick Shonte Dantzler.
The Grand Rapids Press is reporting that one hostage, a woman, was released and is safe. The newspaper said the woman collected a sports drink and cigarettes from police on Dantzler's behalf and was released from an apartment on Rickman Avenue.
The manhunt for Dantzler began after four people were found dead in one Grand Rapids home and three were found in another across town.
Belk says two other people were shot during the police chase that followed but neither suffered life-threatening injuries.
WZZM-TV reported that the suspect demanded Gatorade or threatened to shoot, and authorities delivered it to try to help resolve the standoff.
Residents were warned to stay in their homes as a standoff ensues.
A police SWAT team truck headed toward what appears to be the location where the suspect is believed to be hiding.
The manhunt began after four people were found dead in one Grand Rapids home and three were found in another across town. Mayor George Heartwell says police are seeking 34-year-old Rodrick Shonte Dantzler.
Grand Rapids Police Chief Kevin Belk told WZZM-TV that the victims included a child. AT about 3 p.m., four bodies were found in the 1200 block of Brynell N.E. All four were adults. Three were women.
On the 2000 block of Plainfield N.E., three bodies were found including the child.
State Corrections spokesman Russ Marlan said records show Dantzler was discharged from the prison system in 2005 after serving time for assault less than murder. He has not been under state supervision since then, Marlan said.
Other news outlets report the shootings may be related to a domestic issue.
Dantzler is described as 6-foot-2, 260 pounds.
Authorities were looking for a car, a cream or tan 2003 Lincoln Town car, license plate BWK 2308, but believe that the suspect may have switched vehicles and is in a suburban.
Police helicopters have been dispatched from Lansing to search for the vehicle.
Earlier today, a suspect leading police on a high-speed chase through downtown Grand Rapids, authorities said.
At one point during the chase, the suspect crossed a wide grass median on the interstate and drove the wrong way down the highway while more than a dozen police cars pursued him.
Witnesses told WOOD-TV that shots were fired from the vehicle during the chase and may have struck a bystander.
Within hours, dozens of officers with guns drawn had cordoned off a neighborhood in the northern part of the city, along Interstate 96 near a small lake. Police believed they had the man surrounded but warned residents to stay in their homes.
"It's an awful situation," Grand Rapids Mayor George said. He did not know any motive or Dantzler's relationship to any of the victims.
Sandra Powney, who lives across the street from one of the homes where the shootings happened, said she had seen Dantzler at the ranch house where a couple had lived for more than 20 years with two adult daughters.
Powney said she had been at home all day and did not realize anyone had been killed until police converged on the cul-de-sac in the midafternoon.
"For a while we couldn't come outside," she said. "They didn't know if there was someone still inside the house."
Neighbors said police converged on Dantzler's home and removed two dogs after the shootings a few miles away.
Sonia Bergers said Dantzler lived in the home with a woman she assumed was his wife and their daughter, a girl who appeared to be about 10 years old.
"We've talked with the person they assumed did the shootings," Mary Lahuis said. "You would see him going up and down the street — and you'd hear him going up and down the street."
Lisa Schenden lives with her husband and their children, ages 11 and 8, two blocks from the home where four people were killed. Schenden said the homeowners are a couple whose daughter has a daughter with the suspect.
Schenden said she did not hear the shooting but did see the suspect and his daughter drive up to the house earlier in the day.
"Just last night, my kids went over there swimming, and I went over with them," she said.[/quote]
Live video at the bottom of the link.
Hope they catch him before he kills anyone else.
[quote]Grand Rapids Police Chief Kevin Belk says the suspect in seven Michigan shooting deaths in Michigan[/quote]
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So what's the situation right now?
Hey! That's where I live!
Still in a standoff at the moment it would seem. Listening to the police scanner it appears the police are planning a raid on the house.
Oh Grand Rapids, you are the laughing stock of my state.
First a guy gets shot across the street a few years ago and now this. D:
Did they ever find out what the gunshot was?
There was a gunshot after the one hostage was released.
My scanner isn't picking anything up, too far south.
[editline]7th July 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Detective P;30980159]Oh Grand Rapids, you are the laughing stock of my state.[/QUOTE]
You realize that Detroit is in the state aswell right?
And yes, this is pretty fucking hilarious amirite?
[QUOTE=Detective P;30980159]Oh Grand Rapids, you are the laughing stock of my state.[/QUOTE]
That's Detroit, bro.
[QUOTE=Keegs;30980183]Did they ever find out what the gunshot was?
There was a gunshot after the one hostage was released.
My scanner isn't picking anything up, too far south.
[editline]7th July 2011[/editline]
You realize that Detroit is in the state aswell right?
And yes, this is pretty fucking hilarious amirite?[/QUOTE]
But Detroit isn't into shit every few weeks. Grand Rapids is known for having bad shit happen every few days, but being alright overall. They run themselves into the ground, and then have weird events to try and attract tourism and bring life into the city. They concentrate on the wrong stuff, instead of fixing their crime issue they focus on tourism. And when stuff like this happens, they just ignore it.
Detroit is far too gone and knows it is. Everyone knows Detroit is a shithole. It's like Flint and Lansing. We all know they're too far gone, and they know they are, and they don't hide that fact.
[QUOTE=Detective P;30980328]But Detroit isn't into shit every few weeks. Grand Rapids is known for having bad shit happen every few days, but being alright overall. They run themselves into the ground, and then have weird events to try and attract tourism and bring life into the city. They concentrate on the wrong stuff, instead of fixing their crime issue they focus on tourism. And when stuff like this happens, they just ignore it.
Detroit is far too gone and knows it is. Everyone knows Detroit is a shithole. It's like Flint and Lansing. We all know they're too far gone, and they know they are, and they don't hide that fact.[/QUOTE]
Lansing? Do you even live in Michigan?
Grand Rapids has bad shit happening every few weeks? It's a city bro, you realize this IS the worst killing spree in the city's history.
Sorry but this doesn't look like a shitthole to me man.
[video=youtube;ZPjjZCO67WI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPjjZCO67WI[/video]
On WoodTV right now said they heard scanner traffic that the other hostage has escaped and the guy killed himself.
[Confirmed by police chief - 11:47pm]
Hoping it's true.
(so that the other hostage got away, I don't care bout that guys life)
[editline]7th July 2011[/editline]
[IMG]http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/usn-110707-mich-killings-630p.grid-7x2.jpg[/IMG]
[A man who claimed his daughter was inside a house where three bodies were found collapses in the street Thursday in Grand Rapids, Mich.]
:frown:
[editline]7th July 2011[/editline]
[URL]http://www.woodtv.com/subindex/video/live_video[/URL]
[QUOTE=Detective P;30980328]But Detroit isn't into shit every few weeks. Grand Rapids is known for having bad shit happen every few days, but being alright overall. They run themselves into the ground, and then have weird events to try and attract tourism and bring life into the city. They concentrate on the wrong stuff, instead of fixing their crime issue they focus on tourism. And when stuff like this happens, they just ignore it.
Detroit is far too gone and knows it is. Everyone knows Detroit is a shithole. It's like Flint and Lansing. We all know they're too far gone, and they know they are, and they don't hide that fact.[/QUOTE]
Do you even live in Michigan?
Seriously.
Grand Rapids is into shit every few weeks? Yeah, right. We're not running ourselves into the ground either. Why do you say this? What have you got to show for it? Yeah, we hold Art Prize every year, a tri-state competition and celebration of art. So fucking weird. An electronic music festival every summer? So wacky. What fucking crime issues are you talking about? It make it sound like it's some sort of shithole when it's not. Have you even been here?
And Lansing, the state capital, is too far gone? What the fuck are you talking about?
Alright, fine, whatever. Maybe I'm just going off stereotypes then, I've only been there a few times.
[QUOTE=Keegs;30980642][IMG]http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/usn-110707-mich-killings-630p.grid-7x2.jpg[/IMG]
[A man who claimed his daughter was inside a house where three bodies were found collapses in the street Thursday in Grand Rapids, Mich.][/QUOTE]
Damn, that's hard.
I feel sorry for him.
[QUOTE=Keegs;30980401]
Sorry but this doesn't look like a shitthole to me man.
[video=youtube;ZPjjZCO67WI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPjjZCO67WI[/video][/QUOTE]
What's funny is the preview image for the video looks like there's a riot.
I live in Grand Rapids, this is the first big thing that's happened in years, and it could've been worse. Other then this, everything has been pretty decent. It's probably not the best place in the whole world, but it's not the worst either, far better then a lot of other places.
[QUOTE=firebird_157;30981911]I live in Grand Rapids, this is the first big thing that's happened in years, and it could've been worse. Other then this, everything has been pretty decent. It's probably not the best place in the whole world, but it's not the worst either, far better then a lot of other places.[/QUOTE]
Problem is this is the headline story for CNN, MSNBC and Fox, alittle hard for people not to see this as a bad town if they don't know anything else about this place.
[QUOTE=firebird_157;30981911]I live in Grand Rapids, this is the first big thing that's happened in years, and it could've been worse. Other then this, everything has been pretty decent. It's probably not the best place in the whole world, but it's not the worst either, far better then a lot of other places.[/QUOTE]
I love living here. It's a big enough city to have plenty of services but not so big that it's crime rate is out of control.
[QUOTE=Keegs;30981961]Problem is this is the headline story for CNN, MSNBC and Fox, alittle hard for people not to see this as a bad town if they don't know anything else about this place.[/QUOTE]
I'll have to stand here and agree with this.
[QUOTE=MangoJuice;30981977]I love living here. It's a big enough city to have plenty of services but not so big that it's crime rate is out of control.[/QUOTE]
And this.
Argh, I read title as "Mutant in Grand Rapids Michigan"
[QUOTE=certified;30982110]Argh, I read title as "Mutant in Grand Rapids Michigan"[/QUOTE]
The medical university has gone too far.
All the effort to try and make themselves look better after that magazine said they're a dying city, pretty much all down the shitter. I know you're not a dying city area code bros.
[QUOTE=Keegs;30980401]Lansing? Do you even live in Michigan?
Grand Rapids has bad shit happening every few weeks? It's a city bro, you realize this IS the worst killing spree in the city's history.
Sorry but this doesn't look like a shitthole to me man.
[video=youtube;ZPjjZCO67WI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPjjZCO67WI[/video][/QUOTE]
You made me miss Michigan, mate. [IMG]http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s210/lierofox/emot-saddowns.gif[/IMG]
When I once graduated from middle school, my brother took me to Michigan, near white hall and grand rapids. Only thing that Michigan was made up for is how many people who are retired stayed in Michigan, and the only bad problem with Michigan that I heard of is how the economy suck up there, as people such as my brother had a hard time getting a job out there.
anyways, I've kinda care about this because of a relative of mine lives close to Grand Rapids. Hopefully this bastard dies instead of being hauled off to prison (unless he get the death penalty).
Ah shit. I live in holland, which is about 30-60 minute drive from grand rapids. Good thing I'm on vacation, but im going back in a few days. Hopefully he will be gone or caught or not in Holland.
[QUOTE=Detective P;30980328]But [B]Detroit isn't into shit every few weeks[/B]. Grand Rapids is known for having bad shit happen every few days, but being alright overall. They run themselves into the ground, and then have weird events to try and attract tourism and bring life into the city. They concentrate on the wrong stuff, instead of fixing their crime issue they focus on tourism. And when stuff like this happens, they just ignore it.
Detroit is far too gone and knows it is. Everyone knows Detroit is a shithole. It's like Flint and Lansing. We all know they're too far gone, and they know they are, and they don't hide that fact.[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIgfiSzCy1o[/media]
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