Chad Kuzma Death

One Dead, One Injured In Mt. Pleasant’s Second Gunshot Death – Police identified the victim as Chad Kuzma, 33 as the victim shot dead, the other wounded victim was not identified, He was only described as a 25-year-old man.

The wounded man is not a suspect, said Mt. Pleasant Police spokeswoman Autume Balcom. Police are also working to establish a motive.

Police officers found the two after responding to reports of a homicide at 2:53 a.m. Wednesday morning in the Bradley trailer park, 505 S. Bradley St. on Mt. Pleasant’s west side.

No information was available about a suspect or motive for the crime, according to a statement released on the city’s blog. The department was assisted at the scene by troopers from the Michigan State Police, and officers from the Isabella County Sheriff’s Office, Central Michigan University Police Department, Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Police, Mobile Medical Rescue and Mt. Pleasant Fire Department.

It is the city’s second homicide of 2020, and second since the outbreak of COVID-19.

In the first homicide, which took place in April, a Wyoming (Mich.) man was shot while playing video games in a Campus Habitat apartment, in the 700 block of Edgewood off Broomfield Road between Crawford Street and West Campus Drive.

Two men were charged in that homicide, and both are scheduled for a preliminary examination on Aug. 4.
We express our sympathy and deepest condolences to Chad Kuzma’s family today and in the days, weeks, months, and years that are to come as they cope with his passing. May his soul rest in peace.