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VANDALIA, Mich. - A campground standoff ended today with a second man
fatally shot after pointing a gun at police, police said. Rolland Rohm, 28, was shot about 6:30 a.m. today, the day after his roommate was fatally shot by an FBI agent, Cass County Sheriff Joseph Underwood Jr. said. Underwood said Rohm was shot after several orders by police to put his weapon down. He said Rohm then pointed the gun at a Michigan State Police officer and was shot. It wasn't clear which officer shot Rohm. Underwood said about 3:45 a.m., Rohm asked that his son be brought to see him and told police that if he was, he would surrender at 7 a.m. "We were actually having a dialogue with Mr. Rohm and he was in the process, we felt, of bringing this to a successful conclusion," Underwood said. The sheriff said police were in the process of granting the request when shortly after 6 a.m., a fire was reported at the Rainbow Farm residence. Rohm was then seen leaving the residence with a long gun and walking into the yard, Underwood said. "He comes out with a weapon and he engages officers again and they have to respond," Underwood said. He said a Michigan state police bomb squad was checking the campground because they believed it had been booby-trapped. Rohm lived at the campground, called Rainbow Farms, with Grover T. Crosslin, the campground's owner. Crosslin, 47, was fatally shot Monday evening by an FBI agent. Crosslin was shot after he pointed a rifle at the agent, Underwood said. The standoff began Friday when deputies went to the farm after neighbors said Crosslin, was burning buildings on his property. The sheriff's department said an anonymous call warned them that the fire was set up to ambush police, so officers set up a perimeter around the camp for safety reasons. Dori Leo, Crosslin's and Rohm's attorney, said she spoke to Rohm late Monday night and planned to return today to try to persuade him to leave the farm peacefully. Rohm and his 12-year-old son, who was placed in foster care about a month or two ago, had lived with Crosslin "as a family unit" for at least five years, Leo said. Newshawk: Stop The Killing Pubdate: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 Source: Daily Mining Gazette, The (MI) Copyright: 2001 The Daily Mining Gazette Contact: bheisel@mininggazette.com Website: http://www.mininggazette.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1318 Author: James Prichard, Associated Press Writer |
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