Rodrick Shonte Dantzler Wanted in the Deaths of Seven People, Including a Child, in Michigan

Rodrick Shonte Dantzler considered armed & dangerous after going on bloody rampage in Grand Rapids, Mich., killing seven people, including a child.

Rodrick Shonte Dantzler is wanted in the deaths of seven people, including a child, inside separate homes in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dantzler, 34, is still at large. 

According to the Grand Rapids Press, police were involved in a chase with a man they believed to be Dantzler. The suspect's car crashed in a ditch on I-96 and he fled on foot, chased by a police Special Response Team.

He has entered an apartment and is holding at least one hostage -- and at least three shots were heard inside the house, the Press reports.

Police say three people, reportedly two women and a 10-year-old girl, are dead at one scene, and four others were killed at a separate scene about two miles away, reports CBS affiliate WWMT.

Another man was apparently shot at a third site Thursday in what police believe was a related incident, but was not killed. Source

Why am I not surprised that Dantzler has a criminal history, a violent one at that, dating from 1992, when he was a juvenile, to the present. According to WWMT, he was pled guilty to assault and battery in 2010, serving about a year. That's just the start -- in 2000 he pled guilty to assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder and was sentenced to three to 10 years.

UPDATE#1: Rodrick Shonte Dantzler killed three adult women & an adult man at a home owned by Thomas and Rebecca Heeren. He had a relationship with a woman living at that home, located at 1270 Brynell Court NE, according to MLive. He then went to a second home located at 2046 Plainfield Ave. NE and owned by Patricia N. Emkens, where he killed four people. He reported has a hostage with him as he tries to run from police.


UPDATE#2:  Police have reportedly surrounded a house in Grand Rapids where they believed suspected mass murderer Rodrick Shonte Dantzler is holding two hostages, who are complete strangers to the suspect.

UPDATE#3: Rodrick Shonte Dantzler committed suicide as the noose tightened during a hostage stand-off. Literally. The two hostages were unharmed. There are reports that he had murdered his daughter and another child during his shooting rampage. He also killed his ex-girlfriend, the mother of his daughter.