MECOSTA COUNTY, MI -- Police discovered three young children and a woman dead from gunshots in a home south of Big Rapids, with a man also wounded.
Police, in a press release, did not divulge the ages of the children, but said they all were younger than 10.
The shooting incident happened about 2:30 p.m. Friday, May 27, although the exact location was not immediately released.
Mecosta County sheriff’s investigators did not give an address and, in a statement, mentioned both Austin Township and Mecosta Township as locations for the home. The townships are adjacent to one another, south of Big Rapids.
Mecosta County sheriff’s deputies responded to the home on a report of a man with a gun and shots fired.
Deputies arrived at the scene and found the three children and woman dead from what appeared to be gunshot wounds, police said.
Deputies also found a man wounded from a gunshot to the head.
He was taken to Spectrum Health Big Rapids Hospital and later transferred by medical helicopter to Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids.
Mecosta County Sheriff Brian Miller, in a statement, said there is no shooter being sought and no additional threat to the community.
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