Washtenaw County prosecutors to decide charges in fatal shooting in Pittsfield Township

Update: Pittsfield Township homeowner being released as police investigate whether shooting was self-defense

Pittsfield Township police plan to forward their investigation into a fatal shooting to Washtenaw County prosecutors in the morning.

Pittsfield Public Safety Director Matt Harshberger said in an e-mail this evening that detectives have been following up on leads today and are getting reports ready to be submitted Friday. He declined to provide any new details in the shooting that killed a 28-year-old Van Buren Township man.

The fatal shooting Wednesday occurred outside this home on Rockport Court.

The shooting occurred around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Arbor Creek subdivision, near a school bus stop where about 20 children were waiting.

The shooting took place after an altercation outside the home of 34-year-old Adham Mofiid Abu Farha. A witness told AnnArbor.com she saw two men shake hands in the driveway before the shooting.

Michael Robert Rajchel was shot multiple times and was found dead in the passenger seat of a sport utility vehicle parked in Farha's driveway on Rockport Court.

Officers arrested Farha at the scene of the shooting. Police said he had a gun tucked in his waistband when he was apprehended there.

Investigators have not released a possible motive for the shooting. Harshberger said it will be up to prosecutors to decide what charges Farha could face.

It was the first homicide in Pittsfield Township in more than a year.