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Authorities make arrest in Marenisco Township shooting

Nicholas Millard
Gogebic County Sheriff's Office
Nicholas Millard

GOGEBIC COUNTY, MI— A Pennsylvania man has been arrested for murder in connection with a fatal shooting in Gogebic County on Christmas Eve.

On Friday the following charges were authorized against Nicholas Millard, 30, of Spring Mills, PA:

  • Count One: Homicide-Murder First Degree-Premeditated
  • Count Two: Assault with Intent to Murder
  • Count Three: Weapons-Felony Firearm
  • Count Four: Weapons-Felony Firearm

Millard remains lodged in the Gogebic County Jail on a $1 million cash bond.

Thomas Fletcher, 49, of Marenisco Township was pronounced dead at the scene.

Austin Fletcher, 22, of Irvine, California was taken to Aspirus Ironwood Hospital with a gunshot wound. He was transferred to a hospital in Duluth, Minnesota, where he was treated and released.

The case remains under investigation.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.