State news: Muskegon fatal shooting
Posted: 08.23.2010 at 7:45 AM

Police are treating the crime as a homicide investigation.

MUSKEGON (AP) -- Authorities in Muskegon Heights are investigating a fatal shooting in the western Michigan city.

WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids reports the call came into police around 3:20 a.m. Monday that one person had been shot near the corner of 5th Street and Summit Avenue.

Police found a 23-year-old man dead in a car at that location.  Muskegon Heights Police Chief Lynne Gill tells The Grand Rapids Press investigators are treating it as a homicide investigation.

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