NEWS RELEASE
**********Update**********
DATE REPORTED: Monday, March 11, 2024
LOCATION OCCURRED: 600 Block of Commerce Ln, City of Parchment, County of Kalamazoo
INCIDENT SUMMARY:
The Township of Kalamazoo Police Department was dispatched the 600 block of Commerce Ln for a report of a suspicious object in the Kalamazoo River. Responding Officers determined there was an unidentified male body in the river. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety water rescue and recovery unit assisted in the safe recovery of the body.
The victim has been identified as Ramon Rodriguez, a 42-year-old Paw Paw resident. Investigators are still looking into the circumstances surrounding Rodriguez’s death.
The case remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call the Township of Kalamazoo Police Department Criminal Investigation Division at (269) 381-0391 or Silent Observer at (269) 343-2100.
VICTIM’S INJURIES:
AGENCIES ASSISTING: Kalamazoo Township Fire Department, and the Kalamazoo department of Public Safety.
FOR NEWS RELEASE BEGINNING: DATE: March 14, 2024 TIME: 3:30 p.m.
AUTHOR: Lt. Scott Jackson
SUPERVISOR APPROVING NEWS RELEASE: Lt. Scott Jackson