BREAKING US police hunt for suspect in Michigan town of Kalamazoo after multiple deaths in shootings

[nadinbrzezinski]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35624558

Local media said six people had been killed, with four shot at a restaurant and two killed at a car dealership.

JUST BREAKING

It is 3 paras right now, cannot give you more

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Ok here is reuters

As many as six people were reportedly shot and killed in Michigan on Saturday night in a series of apparently random shootings, according to media reports.

NBC News, citing officials at the sheriff's office, said six people had been killed and three others wounded in shootings in and around Kalamazoo County.

"We seem to be dealing with a worst case scenario, someone driving around shooting," NBC quoted Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas as saying.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-michigan-shooting-idUSKCN0VU05S

And authorities have not confirmed butkus.

And now they have confirmed this somewhat...

Authorities could not be reached to verify the reports independently, but confirmed the number of deaths in interviews with news media posted on their web sites.

[brush]

2. What does "butkus" have to do with it.

You might not know that's a name of a famous ex-football player.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Usually means they have no info on it

or don't know a thing, to me.

I found that lack of confirmation interesting.

There are two possibilities, These reports are being written from scanner traffic... and somebody messed up and this is a drill. We have had those... and if you come into the scanner traffic in the middle, they are realistic as hell.

Or the cops (I fear this is the case) are too busy chasing shadows right now.

[DefenseLawyer]

4. That would be bupkis n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Ok, now we have some confirmation

[brush]

7. That's what I thought you meant but thanks for taking that out.

[valerief]

8. Here:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=butkus
This is the more commonly understood definition of that word.

I knew exactly what she meant. OTOH, I had no clue that was the name of a sports guy.

[Bluenorthwest]

12. Urban Dictionary uses a spelling that is 'alternate' 'bupkis' is a Yiddish word meaning nothing

Which is spelled in lots of ways but almost always as 'bupkis' in the US. Dick Butkus is a famous football something or another.

Bernie supporter Dick Van Dyke had an episode called 'Bupkis'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0559744/

[valerief]

14. Ah, good point. I was probably thinking of the Yiddish word when I read butkus.

I still never heard of the sports guy, though.

[blogslut]

6. Live local news

http://wwmt.com/live

Also on the twitters:
https://twitter.com/wwmtnews
https://twitter.com/ajokichwwmt

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. And they might have a suspect according to twitter

thanks

[wheniwasincongress]

10. Suspect in custody, white male in 50s

[raccoon]

11. Who'da thunk it? nt

[Yavin4]

13. This is like the movie/TV Show "Fargo" n/t

[etherealtruth]

15. more info from a Detroit News cast

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/kalamazoo-deadly-shootings-a-timeline-of-what-happened