KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) – The Latest on the shootings in the Kalamazoo, Michigan, area (all times local):
8:35 a.m.
Western Michigan University officials say they will improve how the school communicates during emergencies after it didn’t issue an alert during the series of weekend shootings a few miles from campus.
The Kalamazoo school’s leaders heard from dozens of students Monday night, including some who criticized the school’s response or who had ideas about improving the alert system.
University President John Dunn says the alert system is set up to warn of threats to the campus and people on it. However, the Kalamazoo Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1Qe9sLk ) that Dunn apologized, saying the school “did not meet your expectations.”
The school’s public safety chief, Scott Merlo, says there was a “breakdown in communication.”
An Uber driver has been charged in the attacks, which killed six people and wounded two others.
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2:50 a.m.
More details are emerging about the night authorities say a Michigan man has admitted gunning down six randomly chosen victims in and around Kalamazoo. But any hint as to why remains stubbornly elusive.
Authorities allege Jason Dalton carried out the attacks over hours during which he also ferried passengers around town as an Uber driver. The 45-year-old appeared briefly in court by video link and was charged Monday with six counts of murder.
Kalamazoo police Det. Cory Ghiringhelli told the court Dalton admitted to investigators “that he took people’s lives.”
The admission seemed only to deepen the mystery of what was behind the killings of six people with no apparent connection to the gunman. Police and prosecutors acknowledge a motive may never be fully known.