Officer kills suspect near Calumet

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OSCEOLA TOWNSHIP - Michigan State Police are continuing an investigation of a dispute between neighbors Wednesday that resulted in the death of one man and a gunshot injury to a law enforcement officer.

The incident took place around 3 p.m. Wednesday on Sixth Street in Tamarack Location near Calumet in Osceola Township.

"There was some sort of dispute between neighbors and we were called up to talk to the parties involved," Houghton County Sheriff Brian McLean said at the scene. "The suspect is deceased, the officer is injured."

The names of those involved have not been released. Police were unable to confirm earlier media reports that the suspect came out of his house with a weapon, prompting the deputy to fire on him.

At approximately 4:15 p.m., neighbors and friends of the men involved in the dispute milled around the scene looking beyong the yellow police tape at law enforcement officials processing the scene, while the suspect's body remained in the street. Many expressed their shock, but declined to be quoted.

Summer resident Ed Matlock sat in a chair in his lawn watching the activity and talking with a neighbor. He said he heard five or six shots.

"I heard the shots and I thought it was people shooting back there, hunting down there," he said. "I was getting ready to go down to get the paper, I saw an officer down and I called 911."

Matlock said when he called 911 he was told the incident was already reported. He said he did not know the man who died.

"Just a wave as he went by," he said.

The Michigan State Police, the Houghton County Sheriff's Department, the Laurium Police Department and Mercy Ambulance responded to the scene of the shootings. The Michigan State Police are handling the investigation, McLean said.

Law enforcement officials were meeting this morning and are expected to release more information later today, Koljonen said.