KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Standing in the parking lot of the Cracker Barrel restaurant in Texas Township, Michigan State Police 1st Lt. Dale Hinz said the awful memories of a Saturday night one year ago come rushing back.
“Not a time goes by that I don’t think about that night,” said Hinz, who commands MSP’s Paw Paw Post and responded to the restaurant on the night of the Kalamazoo-area shooting rampage that killed six people.
The events of Feb. 20, 2016 remain seared in the collective conscience of first responders. A year later, some still describe those moments as “mind-boggling.”
Multiple shootings hours and miles apart — an apartment complex, a car dealership, a restaurant. The most violent crime scene was outside the Cracker Barrel, where four people died.
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