Michigan boy, 4, dies after being wounded during parents' murder-suicide shooting
Police investigating a possible double-murder-suicide in Kalamazoo Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017.
KALAMAZOO, Mich. – Police say a 4-year-old boy has died after being wounded in a shooting that left his estranged parents dead in southwestern Michigan.
Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Assistant Chief Vernon Coakley said the shooting Thursday morning outside a home killed Julina G. Gibson and Nicholas A. Mitchell.
Coakley told the Kalamazoo Gazette the boy, Nicholas J. Mitchell, died later Thursday at a hospital.
Police described the shooting as a murder-suicide.
Copyright 2017 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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