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BAY CITY, MI — Police are investigating the shooting of a suspected burglar in Bay County.
About 1:45 a.m. on Wednesday, April 29, Michigan State Police troopers and Bay County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the shooting scene at a house in the 5100 block of Baxman Road in Monitor Township. They arrived to find a resident had shot a 26-year-old man in his abdomen, said MSP Special 1st Lt. David Kaiser.
Police determined the wounded man had entered the home through a window he had broken, Kaiser said.
The wounded man was taken via ambulance to an area hospital, where he remains in stable condition.
The resident was not arrested or issued a citation, Kaiser said.
Kaiser did not know if the burglar and resident knew each other prior to the incident.
Additional details were not immediately available.