Michael Anthony Elinski (Pittsfield Charter Township Department of Public Safety)
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PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. – The 59-year-old man wanted in the fatal shooting of a woman in a car in Pittsfield Township parking was found dead by police.
Suspect Michael Elinski was found dead in Clare, Michigan, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Elinski was identified as the suspected shooter on Thursday (Jan. 19) while investigating the apparent homicide of a 50-year-old woman from Plymouth.
At around 9:10 a.m. on Jan. 19, the woman -- identified as Andrea Grant -- was found dead inside a vehicle with several bullet holes in it in the parking lot of a business plaza on Plaza Drive near the Ann Arbor Municipal Airport.
Pittsfield Township police initially said they believed this wasn’t a random shooting and that the woman was targeted. Officials later said they identified Elinski (pictured above).
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