Muskegon Heights 12-year-old boy accidentally shot, in critical condition
Muskegon Heights police are considering the shooting an accident and no charges are being filed at this time.
Credit: 13 On Your Side Author: 13 ON YOUR SIDE Staff Published: 4:24 PM EDT May 10, 2021 Updated: 4:24 PM EDT May 10, 2021
On Saturday morning around 11 a.m., a 12-year-old boy from Muskegon Heights was accidentally shot in the chest while he and another kid were playing with a gun.
Muskegon Heights Police Department reported that the 12-year-old boy and and another kid found the parent s gun and there was a bullet inside. The 12-year-old boy was taken to the hospital and is in critical condition.
Feb 2, 2021
Chief Joseph Thomas left the department in October to move to a new department.
Maurice Sain has filled in an interim chief since.
Sain has served at MHPD for 22 years starting in 1999.
He says becoming police chief has always been on his list of career goals.
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Meet Muskegon Heights’ homegrown and humble new police chief
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
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MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MI – In the beginning, it was his height that got Maurice Sain noticed by the Muskegon Heights chief of police.
Sain was playing basketball for Muskegon Community College when he met Chief George Smith. Smith took one look at the 6-foot-5-inch Sain and said, “I need some big guys like you on my police force,” Sain remembers.
The Muskegon Heights Police Department ended up sponsoring Sain’s attendance at the police academy. He’s worked for the department ever since.
Fast forward more than two decades and it’s Sain who’s chief of police – and looking for recruits for the police force.
Muskegon Heights Police arrest two after shots fired on New Year’s Eve
Updated Jan 03, 2021;
Posted Jan 03, 2021
Muskegon Heights Police seized three guns and made two arrests after shots were fired in the 3200 block of Sanford Street on Dec. 31, 2020. (Courtesy photo | Muskegon Heights Police Department)
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MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MI Police arrested two men and seized three guns after responding to multiple calls of shots fired on New Year’s Eve.
Officers responded to the 3200 block of Sanford Street at 12:16 a.m. Dec. 31, where according to a news release from the department, they spoke to multiple witnesses who told them two men were shooting in front of a residence in the area.