HOLLAND (WTHC-AM/FM) — Ottawa County Sheriff’s detectives are investigating a shooting that occurred at about 8:45 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, at the intersection of River Avenue and Douglas Avenue in Holland Township.
Sheriff’s Capt. Mark Bennett said, in a statement emailed to media, that seven Holland Township teens had stopped at the intersection when a tan sedan (estimated as an early 2000s model) with heavily tinted windows stopped in front of the victim’s vehicle.
Witnesses told police a light-skinned black man exited the passenger side of tan sedan, aimed a handgun at the teens’ car, and fired several times.
At least one bullet struck a 17-year-old front seat passenger — but the round hit his cellphone, Bennett said, “and that seems to have prevented serious injury.”
The suspect’s vehicle left the scene. The teens went to Holland Hospital, where the victim was treated for what Bennett called non-life-threatening injuries.
No one else was physically hurt.
Sheriff’s detectives are asking anyone with information to call Silent Observer at (877) 88-SILENT or mosotips.com
