Eaton County Sheriff now investigating shooting deaths of family as murder
3 killed in April 13 shooting
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EATON COUNTY, Mich. – The Eaton County Sheriff’s Office is now investigating the shooting deaths of a family as murder.
Deputies responded to a shooting on Old River Trail at 11 p.m. on April 13. They found Joseph Lechleitner, 47, and his 5-year-old child Vivian Zwick fatally shot.
They found 3-year-old Anson Zwick wounded, but alive. Anson Zwick died at a hospital.
The father lived in the Shingleton area of the Upper Peninsula. All three people were found in a residential neighborhood in Delta Township, all of them had been shot.
Detectives now investigating Delta Twp deaths as murders
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Alberto LuperonApr 27th, 2021, 5:41 pm
Site of the alleged triple murder.
Deputies in Delta Township, Michigan flipped their stance on the deaths of a local father and his two children. Contrary to authorities’ original story from their preliminary investigation, investigators now suspect
Joseph Lechleitner did not fatally shoot
Anson
Zwick, 3, and
“Detectives do not believe this is a random act of violence,” the Eaton County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on Tuesday.
(Deputies say Lechleitner was 47. An online obituary states he was 48.)
It is unclear what resulted in the change of theory. The Eaton County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to a Law&Crime request for comment.