RODRICK SHONTE DANTZLER 'HUNTED' EX-GIRLFRIENDS

NO EXPLANATION

HIS OWN DAUGHTER

THE CRAZED gunman who went on a deadly Michigan shooting spree, went 'hunting his victims' targeting and killing two ex-girlfriends their families and his own 12-year-old daughter, cops say. 
Cops are at a loss as to why Ex-con Rodrick Shonte Dantzler, 34, went round to the home's of his former flames and blasted them their families. 
His victims included his own daughter, 12-year-old Kamrie Deann Heeren-Dantzler. 

Grand Rapids Police Chief Kevin Belk said said the gunman used cocaine and alcohol sometime on the day of his killing spree. 

He added: "I don't have a clinical diagnosis. Clearly he was a very troubled individual.
"It makes no sense to try to rationalize it, what the motives were. You just cannot come up with a logical reason why someone takes seven peoples' lives."
After getting a 911 call that a man had acknowledged killing several people, police went to Dantzler's home, but he wasn't there.
Then came the call from a woman, saying her she had found four gunshot victims at their house, before a final call came in, with three more vicitms.   
While police were investigating the seven slayings, Belk said, officers received a report of a "road rage" shooting after Dantzler had apparently shot at a man through the rear window of the vehicle he was driving, before shooting April Swanson, 35, who he'd known for many years after pulling up next to them at some lights.
Karissa Swanson, 18, recalled: "My mom turned her head and he was right there, yelling her name, like, `April, April, I gotta talk, I gotta talk to you.
"So my mom hung up the phone and called the police and was like, `He's right next to me."'
He eventually crashed the vehicle while driving down an embankment into a wooded area, before making his way into a nearby home and holding people hostage.
Over the next five hours, he alternately threatened to shoot the hostages and pleaded with police to take him out, even asking negotiators whether there were snipers outside the home and where he should stand. 
But when they refused to shoot, he turned the gun on himself, meaning no one will ever know what he was thinking.
Authorities identified the dead as: 29-year-old Jennifer Marie Heeren, an ex-girlfriend; 12-year-old Kamrie Deann Heeren-Dantzler, Dantzler's daughter; 52-year-old Rebecca Lynn Heeren, Jennifer Heeren's mother; 51-year-old Thomas Heeren, her father; 23-year-old Kimberlee Ann Emkens, a woman Dantzler had previously dated; 27-year-old Amanda Renee Emkens, Kimberlee Emkens' sister; and 10-year-old Marissa Lynn Emkens, Amanda Emkens' daughter.

SICK RODRICK SHONTE DANTZLER KILLS 7, THEN SELF

 UPDATE: A killer cops say slaughtered 7 in Grand Rapids, Mich. ended a tense standoff late last night by blowing his brains out. Cops have not released the names of any of the victims but it's believed one of the dead was Rodrick Shonte Dantzler's ex-girlfriend and their daughter, 10.  Police Chief Kevin Belk said: "We'd have much rather got the suspect to surrender peaceably ... but that was not the situation."

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 DEVELOPING: Cops in Grand Rapids, Michigan say the suspected triggerman in the slayings of seven people Thursday has released one of two people he's holding hostage. The woman, 53, was released unharmed. Last
night he was still holding a hostage in a  tense standoff with cops.
Cops say the suspect is Rodrick Shonte Dantzler, 34. The intense manhunt began after four people were found dead in a Grand Rapids home while three more bodies were found across town. Two of the dead are children. Dantzler then shot two more people who suffered non-life threatening injuries.
It's believed the slaughter stemmed from a domestic dispute. Dantzler's girlfriend lived at one of the houses and visited often. Sources say more family members lived at the scene of the second rampage. MORE IN THE DETROIT NEWS