GREENVILLE, Mich. — The Greenville Department of Public Safety says an active shooting situation happened Wednesday, near a school, which led to the arrest of one person.
Jonathan Rasmussen was charged formally Thursday with a slew of felonies including discharging a weapon, felony firearm and four counts of assault with a dangerous weapon.
The judge set his bond at $250,000 cash/surety.
Officers responded to the area of N. Hillcrest and W. Blackburn streets, a little before 5 p.m. Wednesday, for what callers referred to as “loud bangs” and “gunshots.”
That's near Greenville Middle School.
They say two vehicles were shot while driving through the area. As police were investigating, they heard gunshots coming from a home on Blackburn.
That’s where police say they found someone inside the home actively shooting a gun.
Police say Rasmussen stayed inside the home during the situation and the rest of the neighborhood and the nearby school were not in danger; however, the department has since gotten several reports of other vehicles in the area with damage.
Officers surrounded the house and talked with Rasmussen who they say came outside and got arrested.
“Officer safety and community safety is the first thing. When you’re responding to calls like this, it’s relying on the training that we received. Especially, not just within our department, but with our mutual aid partners, in this case, the Michigan State Police and the Montcalm County Sheriff’s Office. Working together and determining that we can contain the person so that we can take him into custody safely is the first thing that goes through our mind,” Greenville Department of Public Safety Interim Director Brian Blomstrom told FOX 17 on scene Wednesday night. “And then, of course, making sure that he doesn’t escape the scene so that the rest of the community is not negatively impacted.”
The superintendent of Greenville Public Schools sent a notice to families in the district Wednesday to inform them about the situation.
Superintendent Wayne Roedel said in the email that the shooting happened near the middle school on Hillcrest; however, he made it clear that this did not involve the school.
Blomstrom says there was a woman who also lives in the home inside at the time of the incident. She was taken to the hospital for “other types of medical issues unrelated to this incident.”
