Police & Fire: Man shot with his own gun after duffel bag falls out of vehicle

MAN SHOT: Battle Creek police are continuing their investigation after a shooting injured a Battle Creek man, Jerold Sherrod, 28, Thursday. Officers were called to 32 Walters Ave. at 5:14 p.m. Thursday and said Sherrod had been shot in the left leg and was taken to Bronson Battle Creek by private car. He was then transferred to Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo for treatment of a non-life-threatening injury. Police said several people were in the garage and driveway at the time of the shooting but detectives said most had left when officers arrived and those remaining refused to talk to police. Anyone with information is asked to call Battle Creek police at 268-781-0911 or Silent Observer at 269-964-3888.

ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING: A 44-year-old man was taken to Oaklawn Hospital in Marshall after he was accidentally shot in the leg with his own weapon. Marshall police were called to the Family Fare gas station at 15975 Michigan Ave. about 2:55 p.m. Thursday. Officers found a man on the ground with an injury to his left thigh. Officers used a tourniquet to control the bleeding and he was taken to the hospital. Police said the man, from out of state, stopped at the station and opened the back hatch of his vehicle and a duffel bag fell and hit the ground. A .45 caliber handgun in the bag discharged, hitting the man in the leg. Witnesses corroborated the information and police said the man has a concealed pistol permit to carry the handgun.

MUTUAL ASSAULT: A man, 40, and his former girlfriend, 22, both said they were assaulted by the other on Thursday but neither wanted to pursue charges. Battle Creek police were called to 100 block of Hubbard Street at 12:47 p.m. Officers said the woman told them she was assaulted by the man, beginning at Grace Health at 188 W. Emmett St. and at the home of the man's mother on Hubbard Street. She told police the couple were arguing because she had just learned she was pregnant and the man hit her in the face, chest and arm and then attempted to twice pull her from the car. The man said he had ended the relationship a few days earlier and was arguing with the woman because he didn't want to continue the relationship. He said he was grabbed and hit by the woman.

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