MAN SHOT, ARRESTED: A 35-year-old Battle Creek man was treated at Bronson Battle Creek after Battle Creek police said he shot himself in the leg with a gun he purchased as protection because of the coronavirus outbreak. Officers were called to the hospital at 1:10 a.m. Monday when the man arrived by private vehicle with a gunshot wound to his right thigh. He told police he had argued with a man near a gas station at Capital Avenue and Goguac Street and the other man shot him. He said he went home and his wife drove him to the hospital. However when police went to the man's home on Goguac Street to investigate, they found blood and a shell casing near the living room couch. When police questioned the man again, he first said he had been shot by someone else but then admitted he accidentally shot himself. Police found a 9mm handgun in the man's dresser. He was arrested on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and reckless discharge of a weapon. No one else was injured. The man's wife said he just recently purchased the gun because he thought he might need it if there is chaos because of the coronavirus.

CRASH VICTIM FOUND: A 29-year-old Battle Creek woman was found in a shed about 12 hours after she and others walked away from a car crash in Emmett Township. The owner of the shed on Cathedral Lane found the woman about 11 a.m. Tuesday covered with a tarp and sleeping. She had some minor injuries including to her leg, from a crash reported at 11:14 p.m. Monday a short distance away in the 13500 block of Beadle Lake Road. Emmett Township police said a Chevrolet Caprice was northbound when it left the roadway and hit a fence and tree. Witnesses said they saw two or three people leave the scene, including a woman who was limping. Officers searched the area but didn't find anyone until the woman was located the next morning. She told police she was a passenger in the car and her brothers left her in the shed and said they would return for her. Police have not located any other people and the crash remains under investigation.

MAN ASSAULTED WITH CRUTCH: A 32-year-old Battle Creek woman was arrested on an assault charge after Battle Creek police said she repeatedly struck a Battle Creek man, 63, with a crutch. Officers were called to the Shell Gas Station at 866 Capital Ave. S.W. at 7:11 p.m. Monday and when they arrived saw the man on the ground and the woman hitting him with both ends of the crutch. When she stopped, she began to walk away from officers, who then used an electric stun gun to subdue and handcuff her. Two other witnesses who had been in a car with the victim and the woman said they picked her up near Capital Avenue and Territorial Road when she asked for a ride. She became upset because she was sitting in the back seat and began to pull on the sweatshirt of the driver. He pulled into the gas station and he and the front seat passenger, using crutches, went inside. The woman began fighting with the older man and they both got out of the car. She went inside and took a crutch from the front seat passenger and went outside and began hitting the man with it and continued even after officers arrived. Police said the woman was intoxicated with a 0.212 blood alcohol level when she was arrested. A driver in Michigan is considered legally intoxicated with a blood alcohol level of 0.08.

ARSON: Battle Creek police are investigating an arson after a vehicle was found on fire in the driveway of the 56-year-old owner in the first block of South 22nd St. The woman called police at 10:18 p.m. Monday and said she and her son-in-law heard a noise and discovered the fire inside the 1999 Chevrolet Tahoe. The man used a fire extinguisher and put out the fire. Police said three towels and a chocolate milk bottle which had contained an accelerant were found in the vehicle. The woman said she didn't know of anyone who was angry with her.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Battle Creek police are seeking a warrant for a man, 33, after his granddaughter, 15, said he pushed her during an argument about his missing razor at 7:26 p.m. Monday in the 100 block of North 23rd Street.

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