Andrew Michael Paul, 23, of Eaton Rapids Township was arraigned Tuesday afternoon and charged with one count of homicide open murder and one count of disinterment and mutilation of a dead body in the death of Carl Florian, 80, of Eaton Rapids Township.

The Eaton County Sheriff’s Office is now investigating the shooting deaths of a family as murder.

A mid-April shooting that the Eaton County Sheriff’s Office originally deemed a murder-suicide is now considered a murder investigation.

A father is believed to have shot his two young children before shooting and killing himself in Delta Township on Tuesday.

A 43-year-old Michigan woman is happy to be alive after her car got stuck in the snow amid subzero temperatures this week. According to Eaton County Sheriff Tom Reich, the woman was leaving work early Tuesday morning when her Ford Blazer got stuck. Because the snow was so high, police officers had to use the assistance of nearly the entire community to help the woman. Ad“(It was) with the help of Michigan State Police, the deputy sheriff at Eaton County Sheriff’s Office, as well as Grand Ledge Fire and their EMS, the Eaton County Road Commission’s office as well as a landscape business,” Reich said. It’s also recommended that drivers use main roads if no snow has been plowed on your usual daily routes.

Officials say Ruis was also denied service by store employees for failing to comply with the mask requirement. Police say Ruis stabbed the Lansing man and the fled the store. MORE: Here’s how Wayne County Sheriff’s Office plans to enforce Gov. Police say the man got out of his vehicle with a knife to attack the deputy who pulled him over. The 23-year veteran deputy of the Eaton County Sheriff’s Office feared for her life, officials said.