LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A violent weekend within the capital metropolis, with 4 separate shootings, has Lansing’s police chief apprehensive it may result in much more violence down the street. Police took 4 individuals into custody over the weekend, and on Monday, they are saying they’re nonetheless looking for different individuals who could have been concerned.
Statistics supplied by the Lansing Police Division present violent crime is down this yr in comparison with 2024, even after this weekend’s shootings. Nevertheless, authorities are nonetheless involved.
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This yr, Lansing has seen 23 non-fatal shootings, in addition to 4 homicides — not together with this weekend’s incidents. Even together with these, although, town is on tempo to submit higher numbers than 2024, 2023, and 2022.
Final yr, town noticed 56 shootings and 10 homicides, the yr earlier than that noticed 64 shootings and 11 homicides, and 2022 noticed 58 non-fatal shootings and 15 homicides — the very best up to now 4 years.
Lansing Police Chief Rob Backus has beforehand credited neighborhood assist for the downward development, however authorities are apprehensive that what occurred over the weekend may result in retaliation down the street.
At a information convention addressing the latest violence, Backus says he hopes individuals take time to grieve quite than take revenge.
He additionally mentioned he was happy with the work of native violence intervention teams like Advance Tempo, noting that they’d about 10 members exterior a hospital in assist of a 15-year-old woman who was shot this weekend.
He additionally harassed how his division can be trying into how the weapons concerned in these shootings had been acquired.
“As we dig into this, of course, we’re looking into offenders primarily, but on the backside of this,s we’re gonna start looking at how these actual firearms came into play,” mentioned Backus. “I’ve already noted that at least one of them was a stolen firearm. We know that one of them was an unregistered firearm. Cause we need to know who else was involved in these cases [and] how these firearms got into potentially the wrong people’s hands.”
Backus is urging anybody in the neighborhood with useful data to contact the Lansing Police Division or anonymously name Crime Stoppers at 517-483-7867.
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