(Tallmadge Township, MI) – A 20-year-old Jenison man is charged with discharging a firearm in a building causing death for a shooting that killed Grand Valley State University student Connor Lotterman last month. Westen Meulenberg is accused of firing several shots into the floor of an upstairs bedroom at a party off the GVSU campus on 2nd Avenue in Tallmadge Township. Authorities say while Lotterman’s death was accidental, the shots being fired were intentional.
Meulenberg faces up to life in prison if convicted. Bond was set at 50-thousand-dollars.
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