Dowagiac Police Investigate Saturday Shooting

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Dowagiac police are looking for a man who they say shot his girlfriend on Saturday. The Dowagiac Police Department says officers were dispatched to parking lot near Dowagiac Liquor in the 900 block of Spruce Street around 10:30 p.m. on a report of a shooting. They found the victim was a 33-year-old Dowagiac woman. She was treated at the scene and then transported to a South Bend, Indiana hospital. She was listed in serious condition and is expected to survive. Police say she’d had a fight with her boyfriend, 45-year-old Robert J. Smith III, of Dowagiac. The woman was driving her vehicle through the parking lot and Smith allegedly was standing in the lot and fired shot several rounds into her vehicle. She was hit once. He then fled. Police say Smith should be considered armed and anyone with information about his location should contact them.