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Woman fatally shot in Sumpter Township, suspect in custody, police say

A suspect was taken into custody after a 20-year-old woman was fatally shot on Wednesday in Sumpter Township, Michigan, according to police.

Police say officers responded at about 4:10 p.m. to a shooting on Edgewood Drive within the Rawsonville Woods mobile home community. Police located the victim lying in the street with a gunshot wound to her upper torso. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say a man was arrested and two other people were taken in for questioning. Police believe that all of the people involved knew each other.

A woman who lives right next to where this shooting took place described to CBS News Detroit how the victim was in a loud argument just moments beforehand.    

"She was pounding on the door, and about five minutes after she was pounding on the door, she was screaming to be let in. She was let in the house," said Samantha Hiske. "About five minutes after she was let in the house, we heard a big bang. I ran out of the house to hear a girl that was standing outside screaming, 'Hide the gun. You shot her, you shot her. Hide the gun, hide the gum.'"  

An investigation is ongoing.

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