Police in Jackson County obtained a name on the afternoon of Saturday, December 7, from Thomas Farnsworth, 57. He was involved a couple of voicemail he’d simply listened to from his neighbor, Roger Schweda, 40.

Farnsworth requested a welfare examine on Schweda after the message, wherein Schweda allegedly informed him he could not go inside as a result of his mom was lifeless. When deputies requested for the precise handle of Schweda’s residence, Farnsworth informed them he’d name them again with it and made his manner onto the neighboring property.

He was standing in Schweda’s driveway when he referred to as the sheriff’s division again — and, as he was speaking to them, he informed them Schweda was pulling into the driveway. Then a gunshot was heard and Farnsworth was by no means heard from once more.

Officers from the Blackman-Leoni Division of Public Security rapidly responded to the scene, the place they didn’t discover Schweda, however did discover Farndworth’s physique within the driveway.

Inside the house, they discovered the stays of the suspect’s mom, Schari Schweda, 70, within the bed room in what was described of their police report as a “grotesque scene.”

Additionally lacking from the property was Schari’s automobile. After placing out info on this automobile, it was picked up by a license plate reader in close by Brooklyn heading into Columbia Township.

There, native police had been capable of monitor down the automobile with Schweda behind the wheel, per CBS affiliate WLNS. They tried a site visitors cease, however Schweda fled the scene. Columbia Township police gave chase and report that Schweda shortly thereafter pulled over and was taken into custody.

On Monday, he was arraigned and charged in Lansing. A request for a competency listening to was accepted by twelfth Circuit Court docket Decide Allison L. Bates, however bond was denied, citing public security considerations. His subsequent courtroom look is ready for January 3.