LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — State lawmakers have launched a invoice to dedicate a phase of Hillsdale County freeway to a deputy who was shot and killed throughout a visitors cease final yr.
William Butler Jr., a Hillsdale County sheriff’s deputy and Michigan Military Nationwide Guard veteran, was shot and killed in June 2024 when he was helping with a visitors cease. In line with regulation enforcement, when Butler tried to arrest the person he pulled over, the person pulled out a gun and shot him. Butler was taken to the hospital by one other deputy, the place he died of his accidents.
Fallen Hillsdale deputy William Butler. (Picture courtesy Rondee Butcher)
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Now, state legislators have launched a invoice within the Senate that will dedicate the portion of freeway M-34 in Hillsdale County between Pioneer Rd and S Pittsford Rd because the “Deputy Sheriff William Butler, Jr. Memorial Highway.”
If signed into regulation, non-public funding would fully cowl the price of erecting and sustaining the freeway markers, as required below state regulation.
