ROOSEVELT PARK, Mich. — Police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide near a Roosevelt Park apartment complex.
There was a heavy police presence around midnight Wednesday near Tiffany Woods Apartments, located on Roosevelt Road. Authorities responded to the area after receiving a shots fired call.
The Norton Shores Fire Department posted on Facebook shortly after 12 a.m. asking people to avoid the area.
Wednesday morning, an officer on scene confirmed with 13 ON YOUR SIDE that two people were killed in the incident.
According to police, five people were in a car on Roosevelt Road when a man sitting in the back seat shot another man in the passenger seat before turning the gun on himself. The suspected shooter was taken to an area hospital where he later died.
Police said the suspect and victim were brothers.
The other three people in the vehicle at the time were a woman and two children. They were not physically injured in the incident, and police say they are now home safe.
Across the street from the scene, Trinity Lutheran Church told 13 ON YOUR SIDE their Roosevelt Street neighborhood was typically a quiet area.
The attached daycare was forced to alter its morning operations due to the lingering police presence, according to Childcare Director Lisa Serene.
Pastor Paul Appold said the church frequently coordinated with Tiffany Woods in various capacities.
This trying time, he said, wouldn’t prove the exception; Trinity Lutheran’s doors would remain open to anyone in need of assistance.
“We just continue to keep them in our prayers and thoughts,” Appold related. “We want to do anything we can to be able to help.”
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