NOVEMBER 05, 2007: NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
Presumed murder-suicide involved Plainwell police officer
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November 05, 2007 11:55AM http://blog.mlive.com/kzgazette/2007/11/presumed_murdersuicide_involve.html
OTSEGO -- Autopsies were to be performed Monday on a Plainwell public-safety officer and his wife found shot in an apparent murder-suicide Sunday night.
A family member called police after discovering the bodies of Kevin and Pam Brainard in their home in the 700 block of Brookside Drive at 10 p.m., police said. It appeared that Kevin Brainard, 31, shot his wife, who was dead when police arrived, and then turned the gun on himself, according to the Otsego Police Department.
Kevin Brainard was pronounced dead a short time after reaching the Borgess-Pipp Hospital emergency room, said Otsego Police Chief Gordon Konkle.Konkle said Monday morning that it wasn't clear what led to the presumed murder-suicide.
"Obviously, it appears to be a domestic situation," he said. "We are trying to backtrack with friends and relatives."
Autopsies were to be performed Monday at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing.
Konkle said Kevin Brainard was with the Plainwell Department of Public Safety for about seven years and was a volunteer firefighter in Otsego for perhaps 10 years. He grew up in Otsego.
"It's a small town. He's well-known ... with his job in the fire department and Plainwell," Konkle said. "This was a shock and a tragedy."
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