Bay City teen charged with threatening Lutheran Home workers with shovel

A 17-year-old is charged with a felony after police say he attacked employees of the Lutheran Home in Bay City. Bay County Central Dispatch on Tuesday afternoon was alerted to a resident of the foster care facility at 304 N. Tuscola Road chasing workers with a shovel. A Bay City police officer arrived to the sight of several employees standing outside the facility, with resident Justin J. McElwee walking around the yard with a shovel in his hand. At the officer’s suggestion, McElwee sat in the back of the police car while the officer spoke with the home’s director, Holly Van Buren. Van Buren told the officer McElwee had an altercation with another employee over the weekend and was afraid the incident would jeopardize a full-ride scholarship he has to attend Michigan State University following an early graduation from Bay City Central High School. Van Buren said she was on the phone with McElwee’s case worker when he became angry, went into the garage and retrieved a shovel.

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