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Man charged with fatal domestic assault

BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) -- A Battle Creek man is being held for aggravated and domestic assault after an argument with his girlfriend that turned deadly early Monday.
 

Sixty-one-year-old Steve Harmon Jr. could still face homicide charges pending the results of an autopsy. The results were not available when the prosecutor's office brought the charges to court.
 

The victim, 55-year-old Denise Priestley, reportedly told police that she was struck with a pot lid, but she told EMTs that she was struck with a cup.
 

Harmon claims that she started the fight and he was just defending himself. Investigators don't know yet why she died some nine hours after police were called to the home they shared at Chateau Village Apartments, and she was transported to Bronson Battle Creek.
 

The magistrate set bond for Harmon at $400,000.

 

Photo Credit: Steve Harmon Jr. (mugshot courtesy of the Calhoun County Sheriff's office)

Argument escalates to homicide

BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) -- A woman who was allegedly hit over the head with a pot lid early Monday morning has died from her injuries and the man who did it is claiming it was self-defense.

Battle Creek police were dispatched to a unit at Chateau Village Apartments in the 600 block of East Michigan Avenue at 4:30 a.m. on a report of a domestic dispute resulting in injuries to a woman.

They found a 55-year-old woman bleeding from head wounds at a neighbor's apartment. She was able to give a statement to police. She was rushed to Bronson Battle Creek Hospital, where she died a few hours later.

 

A 61-year-old man found at the home was arrested for domestic violence. That charge has since been amended to homicide.

 

He is being held in the Calhoun County Jail until an arraignment and a bond hearing is held.

Commissioners discuss separating cars and bikes

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) -- Kalamazoo city commissioners have accepted on first reading an ordinance that would require drivers to give cyclists a three-foot buffer on city streets.
 
On Monday night, a parade of cyclists and local club riders appeared to claim that five feet was the standard used by other communities, asking for a change in the proposal. But City Attorney Clyde Robinson found that over two-dozen states require three feet. Only two require a five-foot separation, and only in high speed situations.
 
He said the city engineer feels more than three feet would force drivers to swerve over into oncoming traffic to get by and three feet is also what a national biking organization recommends.
 
It will be up to commissioners to decide what to do with the proposal at their first meeting in September.
 
Cyclists had one big reason to celebrate after last night's Kalamazoo City Commission meeting: A $1 million plan to build a key stretch of the city's trail-way system through the downtown was approved.
 
It will link the Kalamazoo River Valley trail and the Kal-Haven trail and eventually they hope will link up with trail-ways in Portage and Battle Creek.
 
Jerry Albertson, President of the Parks Foundation, said they are putting up nearly $750,000 to fund the construction of the new trail.

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