Sheriff: Two bailiffs, suspect dead in Michigan courthouse

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ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) - A sheriff says two bailiffs and a gunman are dead at a western Michigan courthouse where a shooting happened.

Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey said at a news conference late Monday afternoon that a deputy sheriff was also shot but is in stable condition at Lakeland Hospital in St. Joseph.

The shooting happened at the Berrien County courthouse on Monday afternoon. Bailey said he did not know anything about the shooter, why he was in the courthouse or how he got a gun. Additional details, including information on how the shooting happened, weren't immediately available.

St. Joseph is located in far southwestern Michigan's Berrien County, which borders Indiana.

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