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Kalamazoo’s homicide victims of 2020 remembered
Updated Jan 04, 2021;
Posted Jan 01, 2021
(Top from left) Royalty Houston-Hooper, McKenna Dutkiewicz, Carmen Hughes, Londrell Cook, Cornelius Fredricks and Dondreal Watkins. (Bottom from left) DeVante Coleman, Brandon Kelley, Michael Clopton III, Rachel Curl, Victor Davis and Robert James Richardson Jr.
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There were more than 70
non-fatal shootings and 13 homicides due to gun violence within Kalamazoo city limits in 2020. Overall, there were 14 homicides in Kalamazoo: three in Portage, two in Kalamazoo Township, one in Oshtemo Township and one in Richland Township, bringing the countywide homicide count to 21.
The total surpasses the previous century mark of 20 homicides in 2016. That year, 11 of the 20 deaths occurred during two mass killings one in February when Uber driver Jason Dalton shot and killed six people and wounded two others, and one in June when Charles Pickett Jr. drove his truck into a group of
Suspect in Kalamazoo double shooting charged with open murder in death of college student
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
Ja Shaun Markee Jones, 20, of Battle Creek, has been charged with shooting two and killing one at Hidden Hills Apartments on Oct. 17, 2020 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. (MLive file photo)
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KALAMAZOO, MI A Battle Creek man already in jail on an attempted murder charge has now been charged in the shooting death of Kalamazoo college student Rachel Curl.
Ja’Shaun Markee Jones, 20, had an amended charge of open murder added on Tuesday, Dec. 22, in Kalamazoo County District Court.
Curl, a 20-year-old native of Benton Harbor, was a student at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, her friend Ari Dolge told MLive.