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Morning Shooting Scare Save Email Print
Posted: 11:05 PM Jul 19, 2008
Last Updated: 5:37 PM Jul 21, 2008
Reporter: Chris Sutter
Email Address: Chris.Sutter@wilx.com

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"I'm sitting here watching TV and then I heard a loud bang," Margaret Vogler says, and her response is becoming a routine one, after a weekend shooting.

In fact gunfire has been heard in Lansing the past three weekends. First in Comstock park on the 4th, Sycamore Street on the 11th, and now New York Avenue, where police say gun shots rang out early Saturday morning. LPD says the most recent drive-by is not connected to either of the prior shootings, and Sgt. Darin Southworth also says he does not believe the shooting was drug related.

"We believe this was a disagreement on other matters that precipitated into a physical confrontation, and then gunshots being fired," Southworth says.

Neighbors say they heard gun shots at about one this morning on New York Avenue, later they say police found their suspect just blocks away on David Street."

"I woke up to my dog barking because there were police running around my house," Melissa Schafer says.

The police were running around Shafer's home because they say the person who was apprehended at the home next to Shafer's was the gunman. Shafer says she thought that there might be drug activity at this home, but she never thought her neighbors were violent and now that's making her wonder if her family is safe.

"What if some our trash got in there yard, or what if our dog had wandered over there does that mean they would've come over and shot at us?" Shafer says.

And while Scahfer is concerned she also says she proud of the Lansing police department for it's quick reaction to this shooting.

There are five men who live in the home, two of them were taken into custody for the shooting, both are in their 20's and will be arraigned in a few days.

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Posted by: Jess Location: Jackson on Jul 20, 2008 at 01:29 PM
Note to editor: In this article, the word "there" should be spelled "they're."

Posted by: jimbob Location: in the center of it all on Jul 20, 2008 at 01:15 PM
Well first of all i was there and there is not 5 people living in that house and alot of the facts here are correct and there is no drug activity here i mean dont you think that the SWAT team coming into the house involved a search warrant and therefore if it was a drug house then you would have heard about that also. And dont worry neighbors there is no need to be scared your going to get shot.

Posted by: Brennan Location: Mason on Jul 20, 2008 at 01:02 PM
Just wanted to let you know, in the line, "What if some our trash got in there yard" you used the wrong "there." It should read, "What if some our trash got in their yard" Just letting you know.

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