EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to include a fourth shooting, on Nov. 21, 2019, in the same area as three others currently being investigated by Ottawa County Sheriff’s detectives.
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Ottawa County Sheriff’s detectives are investigating a shots-fired incident that happened just before 8:45 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, in Holland Township, near the Lakewood Boulevard and Douglas Avenue intersection in Holland Township.
Ottawa County dispatchers received multiple 911 calls reporting several gunshots heard in the area.
No one was hurt and police found no property damage. It’s the fourth such shooting in six months.
A similar shooting on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, near the three-way intersection of Butternut Drive, River and 136 avenues shattered glass at a nearby gas station and left bullet holes in a vehicle or two, but no one was hurt.
In that case police were looking for a silver or gray sedan and a black SUV, each of which fled the scene after the shooting.
On Nov. 22, 2019, police learn that that seven Holland Township teens had been shot at when their vehicle were stopped by a tan sedan (estimated as an early 2000s model) with heavily tinted windows, near the River and Douglas avenues intersection,. They told police the shooter was a ” light-skinned black man” who’d stepped out of the tan sedan.
On June 20, 2019, Sheriff’s deputies were called after a shooting near Riley Street and Butternut Drive. No injuries were reported in that case, and the vehicles were described as “a dark-colored two-door vehicle with black rims and dark windows traveling on Butternut Drive, with a man who appeared to be in his 20’s hanging out of the window of the dark vehicle and shooting a handgun at a white Dodge Challenger.”
Anyone with additional information is asked to contact the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office’s non-emergency line, (800) 249-0911, or Silent Observer 1-877-88SILENT or electronically to MOSOTIPS.com.
