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The Latest: Police ID suspect in fatal Michigan shootings

Police meet early Sunday at Kalamazoo Valley Community College after searching for a gunman involved in multiple shootings Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 in Kalamazoo, Mich. A man drove around Kalamazoo shooting people at three locations Saturday, including a Cracker Barrel restaurant and a Ford dealership, leaving six dead and three injured, two of them critically, police said. Police have arrested the suspect in the multiple shootings. (Mark Bugnaski/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP)  MANDATORY CREDIT
Police meet early Sunday at Kalamazoo Valley Community College after searching for a gunman involved in multiple shootings Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 in Kalamazoo, Mich. A man drove around Kalamazoo shooting people at three locations Saturday, including a Cracker Barrel restaurant and a Ford dealership, leaving six dead and three injured, two of them critically, police said. Police have arrested the suspect in the multiple shootings. (Mark Bugnaski/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT Police meet early Sunday at Kalamazoo Valley Community College after searching for a gunman involved in multiple shootings Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 in Kalamazoo, Mich. A man drove around Kalamazoo shooting people at three locations Saturday, including a Cracker Barrel restaurant and a Ford dealership, leaving six dead and three injured, two of them critically, police said. Police have arrested the suspect in the multiple shootings. (Mark Bugnaski/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) – The Latest on The Latest in the shootings in the Kalamazoo, Michigan area (all times local):

6:50 a.m.

Police have identified the suspect they believe is responsible for a series of random shootings in western Michigan that have left at least seven people dead.

Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Chief Jeff Hadley tells The Associated Press that the suspect arrested early Sunday in Kalamazoo is 45-year-old Jason Dalton of Kalamazoo County.

Hadley says Dalton has no known criminal history.