2 people in critical condition, no arrests

Lina PortmanMay 29, 2024

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LANSING − Lansing police said Tuesday that detectives are reviewing video footage from city and private cameras of a mass shooting that left a teenager dead and six other young people injured early on Memorial Day.

Mayor Andy Schor, emphasizing that the city is safe, said the city is immediately implementing and enforcing an existing curfew order for children for the duration of the summer. The curfew only applies to people aged 16 and under.

Lansing police said Tuesday that Kylete Owens, 17, was killed in the shooting, which occurred around 2:50 a.m. Monday in the 300 block of Riverfront Drive, between Rotary Park and the business district along the river north of Michigan Avenue.

Seven people aged 15 to 20 were shot, according to police.

Two people, ages 16 and 20, were seriously injured and four others – ages 16, 16, 18 and 18 – suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, police said. Police initially said Monday that one person was in critical condition.

Police blamed the violence on members of two rival groups who showed up at what began as a social gathering. The shooters fired into the crowd indiscriminately, they said.

No suspects had been identified as of Tuesday morning, and Lansing Police Chief Ellery Sosebee urged witnesses to “make a decision and pick a side.”

Police said they believe multiple firearms were used in the incident and that “some, if not all” of the victims were unintended targets, Deputy Police Chief Robert Backus said. Police recovered a firearm at the scene, but do not believe it was used in the shooting.

Schor stressed that city parks are safe.

“An incident at 3 a.m. does not make the parks unsafe,” the mayor said.

Lansing police said 50 to 100 people gathered along the river early in the morning before shots were fired into the crowd. They urged anyone with video of the incident to come forward and share the video with police.

Monday's shooting took place near Lansing Shuffle, a food hall and social club located in the former Lansing City Market off Riverfront Drive. The business closed its doors more than three hours before police responded to the incident.

Jonathan Hartzell, developer and director of acquisitions and programming at Detroit Rising, the Livonia-based company behind Lansing Shuffle, said Tuesday he spoke with police.

“It was in Rotary Park, in the city parking lot,” Hartzell said. “People would gather there after office hours. »

He said police told him that in the future city staff intended to turn off lights in the area at a certain time outside of business hours. Hartzell thinks this will discourage large groups of people from spending time there early in the morning.

“There must be a curfew at some point in this park, right?” he said. “So the police kind of took care of it.” Normally this is not a problem for us. We have never had a problem in our building and our terrace.

The incident is the latest shooting in two violent months for Lansing. After no homicides in the first three months of the year, the city recorded eight in April and May, according to Lansing police.

Police called Monday's shooting an “isolated incident” and said it remains under investigation.

Lina Portman

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