BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — One man is dead and a woman is in the hospital following an early morning shooting in Battle Creek.
Police say a shooting was reported on Spencer Street just north of Michigan Avenue around 3 a.m. on Tuesday, April 16. Inside the home officers found two people with apparent gunshot wounds.
47-year-old Clayton Holt was pronounced dead at the scene. A 34-year-old woman was transported to a hospital in Kalamazoo. She is listed in critical condition.
As detectives began collecting evidence, an officer maintaining a perimeter a few blocks from the home located a potential suspect. That officer arrested the 43-year-old resident of Battle Creek in connection to the shooting.
That suspect is being held for open murder and assault with intent to murder.
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