


The Barry County Sheriff’s Department Special Response Team was called to assist. When troopers arrived, Leiter initially refused to exit the RV, and officers surrounded the vehicle. Prior to troopers arriving, Leiter threatened people at the campground and started “shooting rounds into the air from a handgun he had pulled out of a backpack,” the Barry County Sheriff’s Department reported. Michigan State Police received a report of a domestic dispute involving the suspect and his girlfriend. Leiter is charged with three counts of felonious assault and one count of reckless use of a weapon in connection with the May 16 incident at the campground on Welcome Road, north of the city of Hastings.

A conference had been scheduled for last week but was adjourned, court officials said. Trevor Dean Leiter is scheduled to appear for a probable-cause conference June 15 in District Court 56B. A new court date has been set for a 24-year-old Battle Creek man accused of threatening campers at the Welcome Woods campground in Carlton Township last month.
