On the morning of Sunday, September 8, 2019, multiple gunshots were reported in Dryden Township. Responding officers found 35-year-old Jason Stefanski of Rockford in a ditch along Hollow Corners Road; an autopsy confirmed he died of gunshot wounds. Another man, 29-year-old Nicholas Palazzolo of Cadillac, was also shot and injured at the scene.

Investigators located a vehicle with a flat tire on Sutton Road that appeared to have left a groove from Hollow Corners Road. Inside was 37-year-old Lydell Dukes of Ferndale with a handgun in his lap. He initially refused officers’ commands, fled and led deputies on a chase northbound on M-24; the pursuit ended when his vehicle, driving on its rims, collided with two sheriff’s cruisers and he was taken into custody. Evidence found in the vehicle led investigators to describe the shootings as drug-related, and Dukes was charged in connection with Stefanski’s death and the shooting of Palazzolo.

Does anyone have information about Jason’s movements in the Almont or Dryden Township area around September 8, 2019?