KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutor have filed murder charges
against two young men and a 15-year-old boy in the shooting of a
13-year-old boy in Kalamazoo following an argument and fight between a
large group of people.
Eighth-grader Michael Day was killed by a shotgun blast May 26.
The Kalamazoo Gazette (http://bit.ly/1kruTIW )
reports that Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeffrey Getting said Monday
that he has brought open murder charges against 18-year-old Rashid
Perez, 23-year-old Octavius S. Snell and a 15-year-old. The 15-year-old
is being tried as an adult.
It wasn’t immediately known if the defendants have lawyers.
Police
say the Milwood Middle School student also was shot in the back April 6
after leaving a party. His funeral is at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the
Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi Community Center in Fulton.