10/20/2023 0 Comments Superior township shooting![]() Mostoller is being held in Somerset County Jail without bond. LaShawn Covington’s bond was recently reduced from 100,000 to 10 percent of 10,000, court records show. 45-caliber auto cartridges, a magazine, a blue tarp and a white rope. A second person charged in the shooting death of a Superior Township man in January has been released on a reduced bond pending trial. 45-caliber auto casings, a forged chrome-vanadium wrench, bullet fragments, a cellphone, a Nowlin. Homicide investigators recovered 12 Speer. ![]() "We're looking into a lot of the background information on the case," Somerset County Acting District Attorney Molly Metzger said. It's unclear what the relationship was between the two men. Investigators have not disclosed a motive for the shooting. Troopers arrested Mostoller at the scene, where he reportedly admitted to killing Johnson. Troopers said when they arrived, they found Johnson partially under a sliding barn door. Mostoller reportedly called the Somerset barracks saying, "A guy came at me with a wrench and I killed him," a complaint affidavit said. He is accused of shooting Johnson seven times at a residence in the 800 block of Charles Street on June 2. ![]() He can be reached at or you can follow him on Twitter.State police in Somerset charged Mostoller with criminal homicide. "We have some good leads to follow up on." "It was not a random act of violence," Fox said. While the circumstances aren't yet known, police do know the shooter and victim weren't strangers. Details are still trying to be pieced together. Brooks is expected back in court for a preliminary exam at 8:30 a.m. No charges have been filed for that shooting. Police have conducted a preliminary interview with the man, who Fox said had multiple gunshot wounds to his legs. Sheriff’s office spokesman Derrick Jackson said the Superior Township shooting was linked to a different shooting in the West Willow neighborhood of Ypsilanti Township the night before. "The shooting may have occurred somewhere else," he said. ![]() Geoff Fox of the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office said in all likelihood, the shooting didn't take place where the man was found. Paper and other materials were being collected as evidence. Melanie Maxwell | Updated at 2:47 p.m.: Ford Road is closed from the 6900 block to the 7000 block as investigators comb the side of the road where the male victim was apparently found. Investigators sift through evidence along Ford Road near Northbrook Drive in Superior Township. ![]()
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