The Mason County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office could have reports on the shooting of William Jackson Marble, 68, as soon as Monday so that the shooting can be reviewed, according to the Michigan State Police.
“Reports are being finished up and are going to be presented to the prosecutor on Monday,” F/Lt. Kevin Leavitt, commander of the Hart post, said this morning.
Leavitt said they are still waiting on laboratory reports, including toxicology reports from Marble’s autopsy, but evidence from the scene, what lab reports that are finished, statements from responding officers and the recording from the collar mic trooper who shot Marble after responding to a 911 hangup call at Marble’s home will all be in Mason County Prosecuting Attorney Paul Spaniola’s hands next week.
Asked how the five-year-veteran trooper, who is on paid administrative leave until the conclusion of the investigation, is faring, Leavitt said it’s been a difficult period for the entire post, especially after the Sept. 9 shooting death of Trooper Paul Butterfield II on a routine traffic stop on North Custer Road near Free Soil.
“Everybody at the post is getting through this,” Leavitt said. “This has been a difficult six months and this doesn’t help that. It’s the job we all chose and we know the risks that are taken, but we like to work in a community without that hanging over our heads all the time. Everybody is doing as well as can be expected.”
The state police will not announce the name of the trooper who shot Marble, per MSP protocol. That name will be included in public records in the future, but not until the prosecutor makes a determination about whether the use of deadly force was warranted in the incident.
“We’re just working on the paperwork and compiling everything for prosecutor Spaniola,” Leavitt said.
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Bill Marble, 68
William Jackson Marble, 68
