13-year-old survivor of Michigan rampage called 911 to report she’d been shot

A 13-year-old girl — the only survivor of a shooting rampage in rural Michigan — called 911 on Friday after she was shot four times, according to a state police official and her family Saturday.

The girl was found in a home in Lake Township, in Missaukee County, where three other people were found dead when police arrived around 11:40 a.m. Friday.

The suspected gunman, Chad Hickman, 39, is believed to have killed five people across three locations. He was later found dead next to one of the victims in a wooded area after police launched a manhunt for him.

The girl was taken to a hospital in critical condition but was stable by Saturday, police said.

She “called 911 to report that she had been shot,” state police spokesperson Lt. Ashley Miller said. The suspect had fled before officers arrived, but investigators had no doubt about his identity, Miller said.

“We were able to identify him right away,” she said, declining to say how.

Police had not released the names or relationships of the shooter and victims as of Saturday.

A relative identified two of those killed on Facebook as Amanda Everitt, 40, and her 16-year-old son Eric. David Everitt, Amanda’s father and Eric’s grandfather, wrote that “this world just lost two beautiful people and one is clinging to life.”