ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING: Battle Creek police are seeking charges for a 19-year-old Battle Creek man after his girlfriend was injured in an accidental shooting. Officers were called at 2:27 a.m. Sunday after the woman, 19, arrived at Bronson Battle Creek for treatment of a gunshot wound to the leg. She told police she and her boyfriend were walking on North Avenue when someone fired a shot from a car hitting her in the lower leg. When police questioned her about details she eventually confessed she was accidentally shot by her boyfriend at a home on Boyd Drive. The boyfriend first told officers the woman was shot by one of two men in a car which stopped while they were walking to a store for cigarettes. He said someone from a car stopped and one of two men inside said "Is that you?" and fired a single shot. He later confessed to the accidental shooting after officers also confronted him about the physical evidence. He then told police he bought the gun for $200 from a man in a car two weeks earlier and was looking at it when it fired, hitting the woman. Police said the gun was reported stolen in Marshall in 2016. Police recovered the weapon and some illegal drugs from a lock box hidden by a friend of the man. The case was sent to the Calhoun County prosecutor for review.

SEXUAL ASSAULT: A 36-year-old Battle Creek man was arrested on charges of criminal sexual conduct after an 18-year-old woman said she was raped. The woman said she was walking about 7 a.m. Saturday after leaving the Inasmuch Women's Shelter when the man stopped and asked if he needed a ride. She accepted even though she told police she didn't know the man but thought he might be acquainted with her mother. They went to a home on the west side of Battle Creek and then to a motel on Beckley Road where the man rented a room. The man went to a fast food restaurant and returned with food and after eating the woman said she didn't remember much and things "felt like a dream." She woke later and believed she had been sexually assaulted. The man told officers he was just trying to do something nice for the woman and police described him as being uncooperative with their questions.

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LARGE CROWD: About a dozen people were arrested after Battle Creek police were called to the Sunset Store at 515 W. Michigan Ave. at 1:28 a.m. Monday. Police said about 125 people were gathered in the parking lot and adjacent yard. They were drinking and some were fighting. The lot was filled with cars and people and when police ordered them to disperse several refused. Some were still attempting to fight and when officers attempted to separate them other people began to interfere, police said. Police from the city were assisted by officers from the Michigan State Police, Calhoun County Sheriff Department and the Emmett Township Department of Public Safety. Officers said the late night gathering of large crowds is a growing problem at the store.

BREAK-INS: • Capital Avenue Northeast, 200 block; attempted.

THEFTS: • South 23rd Street, 100 block: shoes, one arrested.

VANDALISM: • Arbor Pointe Drive, 100 block: undisclosed.

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