State Trooper Shot – Two Suspects Already In Custody (VIDEO)
A State Trooper shot on the road. Michigan State Police are mourning the loss of one of their own, while investigating what lead up to the shooting death of Trooper Paul Butterfield.
F/Lt. Chris McIntire, MSP Public Information Officer, said Tuesday investigators have a lot of work to do.
Trooper Butterfield was shot in the head during a traffic stop near Ludington on Monday. Butterfield stopped a vehicle at 6:20 p.m. in Sherman Township, and three minutes later a motorist called 911 to report that a trooper had been shot in the head. Butterfield, 43, died during during emergency surgery at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City. Sherman Township is about 80 miles north of Grand Rapids.
Two suspects, a man and a woman, are in police custody. The man was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after an exchanged gunfire with the police. No one has been charged.
Butterfield, who became a trooper in 1999, was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He was the son of a retired police officer and spent most of his time at a post in Manistee before he was transferred to Hart in Oceana County, 30 miles south of the shooting site.
Video Courtesy of WOOD-TV.