Uber gunman Jason Dalton's wife Carole files for divorce after 21 years
The wife of the former Uber driver charged in the slayings of six people in southwestern Michigan has filed for divorce.
Carole Dalton, the wife of alleged shooter Jason Dalton, filed papers in Kalamazoo County Circuit Court Friday saying 'there has been a breakdown in the marriage relationship', MLive.com reported.
Jason Dalton, 45, is jailed on six counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder.
Eight people were shot at three locations in the Kalamazoo area. Only two survived.
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Headed for divorce: Uber driver Jason Dalton, who is charged with murdering six people in Michigan last Saturday, has been served divorce papers by his wife of 21 years, Carole Dalton, with whom he has two kids
Jason and Carole Dalton married in 1995 and have two children, ages 15 and 10.
The newspaper reports that 45-year-old Jason Dalton earned $50,000 per year at an appraisal company.
He also worked as an Uber driver and was transporting passengers the day of the mass shootings.
Dalton was arrested in Kalamazoo over the weekend after allegedly going on a deadly shooting spree while driving a Chevrolet for the popular ride-sharing service.
Attorney Paul Vlachos, who has been hired to represent Dalton's family, went on ABC's Good Morning America on Thursday offering new details on the suspect's demeanor leading up to the tragic events last Saturday night.
First interview: Attorney Paul Vlachos, who has been hired to represent Dalton's family, went on ABC's Good Morning America Thursday revealing that Jason didn't seem like his usual gregarious self in the days leading up to the shooting spree
Gun shop visit: Kalamazoo gunman Jason Dalton casually strolled around a gun store before he bought a tactical jacket designed to hide a gun hours before his rampage left six dead, surveillance photos obtained by the Daily News show
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Share'He's been acting different in the last couple of days,' the lawyer revealed. 'His wife asked him and he said he was tired.'
Vlachos explained that Carole Dalton had noticed that her usually upbeat husband 'seemed to be depressed and down, which was not his normal character.
'Jason, by all accounts, was a fairly gregarious character, a good father, well-known in the community, well-liked, and there was nothing to indicate that something like this would occur,' the family attorney said in the interview.
When Dalton's family learned of the deadly rampage and his alleged involvement in it, they were bewildered.
Vlachos said: 'They’re thinking like everybody else: why?'
According to the lawyer, the Uber driver’s wife has not been able to come to term with what had happened.
‘She's still in disbelief,’ Vlachos revealed.
On Wednesday, it emerged that Dalton visited a gun shop shortly before the rampage and switched cars after the first shooting.
Dalton randomly shot at people at an apartment complex, a car dealership and a restaurant, killing six and badly wounding two others
Flowers for the fallen: A makeshift memorial is seen near where people were shot near car dealership in Kalamazoo, Michigan
At least one passenger who rode in Dalton's car that night, apparently after the deadly spree had begun, recounted that the Uber driver seemed oddly calm and even appeared to be fatigued to the point of almost falling asleep at the wheel.
'He didn't say much and he didn't act abnormal. He was rather quiet,' Marc Dunton told Reuters of the ride he shared with two friends, taking the front-passenger seat beside Dalton.
Prosecutors say Dalton randomly shot at people at an apartment complex, a car dealership and a restaurant, killing six and badly wounding two others, including 14-year-old Abigail Kopf who was left in critical condition.
'Right after the first shooting at the apartments, he left the scene and sideswiped a car,' said Paul Matyas of the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Department. The accident prompted him to switch cars, from a silver Chevrolet Equinox to a Chevy HHR, both vehicles belonging to his parents.
Dalton was denied bail on Monday after a court hearing in which a detective testified that he admitted to the deadly spree.
Hours before the first shooting occurred on Saturday evening, Dalton and a friend visited Southwick's, a gun shop he frequented in nearby Plainwell, a shop employee told Reuters.
Barbara Hawthorne (left), 68, and Dorothy Brown (right), 70, were also believed to have been inside the vehicle when it was hit by a barrage of bullets
Sisters-in-law Mary Jo Nye, 60, (left) and Mary Lou Nye, 63, (right) were killed during the shooting spree while sitting inside a car with the 14-year-old girl at the Cracker Barrel
Fighter: The parents of Abigail Kopf (left and right), 14, who was shot in the head in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Saturday, say their daughter is fighting for her life. The teen was initially declared dead
Tyler Smith, 17,(right) was killed in the parking lot of Seelye Kia, along with his father, Rich (left), while they were looking at cars, multiple reports suggest
Dalton was a regular customer who usually spent time chatting with the staff, but he bought a heavy-duty tactical jacket and left the store within 10 minutes, said the employee, who asked not to be identified.
'He's in here enough for me to know he talks to the guys about guns and different stuff,' she said.
Searching for a motive behind the violence, investigators focused on a 9mm semi-automatic handgun and a cellphone seized from Dalton, as well as the fact that he picked up fares for Uber between or after the shooting episodes.
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FROM HIS FIRST FARE TO HIS SURRENDER: HOW THE KALAMAZOO SHOOTING SPREE UNFOLDED
SATURDAY
- Around 4:30pm: Dalton picks up a fare, Matt Mellen, who tells WWMT-TV that after ending a phone call, Dalton began speeding, sideswiping cars and driving over lawns and medians. He says he jumped out and ran when the car stopped, and that he called police and tried to warn Uber.
- 5:42pm: The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office is called to the scene of the first attack, an apartment complex on the eastern edge of Kalamazoo County where a woman had been shot multiple times. She is expected to survive.
- Around 7pm: Dalton is seen at his home, according to a neighbor. James Block, who has lived next door to Dalton for 17 years, says his niece saw Dalton pull out of his driveway, rapidly back up toward his garage, then drive off.
- 10:08pm: A father and his 17-year-old son are fatally shot while looking at cars at Seelye Kia of Kalamazoo.
- 10:24pm: Five people — including a 14-year-old girl — are gunned down in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant. Four are killed, and the teenager is critically wounded.
SUNDAY
- 12:40am: Dalton is arrested without incident after a deputy spotted his vehicle driving through downtown Kalamazoo after leaving a bar parking lot.
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