Woman reportedly wielding explosive device shot by Michigan sheriff’s deputy

MECOSTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. – A 36-year-old woman has been hospitalized after being shot by a Mecosta County sheriff’s deputy.

It happened at about 11:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 22, in Mecosta Township, just south of Big Rapids.

According to the sheriff’s office, deputies were helping a man with a woman who was refusing to leave his property. The woman allegedly refused commands and assaulted the deputies before she reportedly “began to make the motion to throw a gasoline explosive device.”

The woman was shot by one of the deputies and was airlifted to a hospital in Grand Rapids, where she is expected to survive.

The investigation is ongoing.