GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Kent County prosecutor has ruled that police officers were justified in opening fire on a suicidal man at a Wyoming cemetery late last month.
The man, 52-year-old Joel Peloquin of Wayland, actually died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head during the March 30 incident at Resurrection Cemetery on Clyde Park Avenue at 44th Street SW.
Peloquin was also shot three times by officers: once in the chest, once in the thigh and once in the upper arm. The medical examiner ruled none of those shots would have been fatal, according to the decision Prosecutor Chris Becker released Monday.
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