OTISVILLE, Mich. — Michigan State Police troopers who shot and killed a 54-year-old Otisville man after a long standoff in the summer of 2025 will not face criminal charges, state prosecutors in the Michigan Department of Attorney General said on Nov. 13.
State prosecutors concluded the troopers fired in self-defense and to protect fellow officers and people nearby. State police policy sends every shooting involving its officers to the attorney general for an outside review.
The standoff started on the afternoon of July 31, 2025, when troopers answered a 9-1-1 call from a woman who said the man had assaulted her inside his home before she got away. Troopers spent a long time on the phone trying to talk him into coming out. He refused, and because he was known to keep many guns in the house, troopers set up a perimeter and called in the state police Emergency Support Team.
Team members started arriving around 5:30 p.m. They kept negotiating and used loudspeaker announcements, flash-bangs and pepper balls to try to force a surrender. At 6:54 p.m. the man fired one round at troopers, who held their fire at first and stayed with non-lethal tactics.
He then started shooting again at troopers and their vehicles, and one bullet went into an occupied house next door, barely missing the person inside. Over roughly 15 minutes, until 7:09 p.m., he opened fire four separate times, and five members of the team shot back. He was found dead in an attic, hit four times, with several guns and ammunition magazines around him.
In reaching the decision, prosecutors examined trooper reports and signed statements, body camera recordings, dash camera video, scene diagrams and the Genesee County Medical Examiner’s findings.
From the HERE City State Desk.
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