Good Guy with a Gun #137: Egelston Township, MI (free post)
Criminals, know when to quit. Say, before breaking into an apartment. Definitely before assaulting the tenant. Way definitely before entering the house next door. | Original incident: March 18, 2024
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Chatterson Road in Egelston Township is a part of Michigan where Muskegon’s suburbs blur into their rural surroundings. It was there that a woman, her boyfriend, and her two children were at home on an ordinary night.
A commotion broke out at 2 AM. It must have seemed like a bad dream to see a 38-year-old man — apparently intoxicated — banging on the window of an apartment attached to their house.
He broke in and assaulted the tenant there. (We don’t have any details about that assault.)
Then he came for the main house.
The homeowner shot him, and he died at the scene.
The woman told reporters that nobody in her house was harmed — except, of course, the man who broke in.
Michigan’s Castle Doctrine likely covered the incident — there’s no follow-up in the news, which suggests no charges were filed. The Sheriff’s Office noted that incidents like this are rare in the area: Most break-ins target garages or outbuildings, and homeowners often don’t even know someone is attempting to get in.
This homeowner knew.
Sources
Multiple news outlets covered this incident.
WoodTV 8 did the most complete job: They spoke to the woman at the house, quoted the prosecutor, and explained Michigan’s Castle Doctrine.
WoodTV 8 and WZZM13 both got the Sheriff’s Office on record.
MLive’s contribution was noting the multiple agencies that responded.
Oceana County Press and WWMT 3 gave terses write-ups.
None of them talked to the tenant who was assaulted, which is unfortunate, but of course I don’t know whether they tried and were rebuffed.
On the 2A / conservative / aggregator side, Dave Urbanski covered the story for Blaze Media, as did Javier Rodriguez for Hoodline.