PAW PAW, Mich. (AP) - Police in southwestern Michigan say a man died last year in a reckless driving incident, not a fall down the stairs.
Dakota Kearns was brought to Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo on Oct. 11. Medical staff was told the 23-year-old Gobles native had been injured in a tumble down a flight of stairs.
But medical examiner’s investigators determined Kearns’ injuries were not consistent with that story.
Van Buren County sheriff’s Sgt. Dennis Harvey says Kearns was on top of a car when he fell and struck his head on the roadway. According to Harvey, Kearns and 24-year-old Seth Jones of Lawton were in Almena Township, trying to steal street signs.
Jones was arraigned this week on a reckless driving causing death charge. A message was left Friday was his lawyer.
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