No charges will be brought against an 18-year-old man in the stabbing death of his mother s boyfriend.
Calhoun County Prosecutor David Gilbert has decided Jose Serbantez was acting in self defense when he stabbed Christopher Dykstra on March 17.
Dykstra, 43, died in the driveway of the home he shared with his girlfriend, Amber Correnti, Serbantez and his 12-year-old brother.
In a seven-page opinion dated Wednesday, Gilbert said he found Serbantez was in fear that Dykstra was going to assault him or his mother. Serbantez told police Dykstra was arguing with him, spitting on him, taunting him and then headbutting him and said Dykstra was going to beat him.
Testimony begins in homicide case involving missing Battle Creek woman yet to be found
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
Posted Jan 19, 2021
Derek Horton filed a missing person s report with the Battle Creek Police Department on June 24, 2020, stating he had last seen his girlfriend Amber Griffin two nights before. Horton was charged three days later with one count of open murder. Griffin s body is yet to be found. (MLive file photo | Joel Bissell)Joel Bissell | MLive.com
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BATTLE CREEK, MI Preliminary testimony began Tuesday in the homicide case involving the boyfriend of a missing Battle Creek woman presumed dead.
Derek Depree Horton, 26, was charged June 27 with killing his 27-year-old girlfriend Amber Griffin, who he had reported missing to the Battle Creek police three days earlier. Griffin still has not been found by police or heard from by family members or friends, according to police.
Calhoun County prosecutor clears 3 Battle Creek police officers, deputy involved in fatal shooting
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Posted Dec 21, 2020
Three Battle Creek police officers and one Calhoun County sheriff’s deputy involved in the Sept. 5 shooting death of 22-year-old Andrew Charles Blowers were cleared of any wrongdoing by Calhoun County Prosecutor David Gilbert on Monday, Dec. 21, 2022. (MLive file photo | Joel Bissell)Joel Bissell
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Calhoun County Prosecutor David Gilbert announced the decision Monday, Dec. 21 after a three-and-a-half-month investigation.
“The officers were justified in using deadly force against Mr. Blowers,” Gilbert wrote in his summary decision. “His conduct put the officers in reasonable fear for their physical safety and the life and physical wellbeing of Officer (Steven) Herbstreith.”