CHARLOTTE — A man who was shot and killed by police in a rural part of Eaton County on Jan. 11 had threatened to get in a shootout with officers and fired a weapon at deputies after they forced his vehicle off the road, the Eaton County Sheriff’s Office said.
Three members of the sheriff’s department were involved in the incident, and officials identified them as Lt. Preston Dahlgren and deputies Shelby Studley and Randi Lane. The sheriff’s department on Friday also released video footage from the incident.
The fatal shooting of Garrett Roger Freeman, 33, happened in the area of St. Joe Highway and Gates Road, near Sunfield in Roxand Township.
Freeman’s name was not released until earlier this week, and Friday’s news release included the first substantive update about events leading up to the shooting more than two weeks ago.
Those events began on Jan. 9, when Charlotte police responded to a domestic assault call in the 500 block of North Cochran Avenue, the release said. During that incident, Freman reportedly “rammed his car into the victim’s vehicle and came dangerously close to her house,” police said.