A 911 report, a basement hallway and disputed statements now frame the case against Andrea Graham.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A Sunday afternoon 911 call from a Battle Creek home led police to a wounded man, a woman outside the residence and a murder case built around what officers found after they stepped inside.
The man was Alan Graham, 31. The woman was his wife, Andrea Graham, also 31. Police say she directed officers into the Ridgeway Drive home after the April 12 shooting. Within days, she was in Calhoun County Court facing a murder charge and a firearm charge. She pleaded not guilty, and a judge denied bond.
The call came in just before 4:30 p.m., according to local reports on probable cause documents. Andrea Graham told dispatchers that her husband had tried to kill her, that she had tried to defend herself and that she did not think he was alive. Battle Creek police arrived in the Ridgeway Drive block for a report of a shooting victim. Their official release said a 31-year-old woman was outside the home and pointed arriving officers inside, where they found a 31-year-old man with apparent gunshot wounds to his upper torso.
Emergency workers tried to save Alan Graham at the scene. LifeCare Ambulance was there with police, but he was pronounced dead inside the home. Police did not release his name in the first statement, saying only that a woman had been taken into custody and lodged at the Calhoun County Jail on an open murder charge while she awaited arraignment. The department said the case remained under investigation and released no interviews at that time.
Court reporting later identified the woman as Andrea Graham and added details from inside the home. Officers found Alan Graham in a basement hallway. A Springfield Hellcat 9 mm pistol was found on the basement stairs. Three spent shell casings were recovered, with two in a laundry room and one in an adjacent room about 10 feet away. Investigators also found glass from a shattered picture frame on Alan Graham’s body. Those details became the foundation for a police theory that the shooting did not happen while he was strangling her.
Andrea Graham allegedly told officers at the scene that she had shot her husband “a couple of times” and wanted to make sure “he was out of his misery.” Investigators said the statement came after she had already told dispatchers that he tried to kill her. The two claims now sit side by side in the case record. One describes a fear for her own life. The other, as police present it, describes further shooting after Alan Graham had already been hit.
Investigators said the physical evidence did not support the self-defense account they received from Graham. They said she had no visible injuries consistent with strangulation. They also said she had no blood on her clothes. Blood spatter analysis, shell casing positions and the broken glass led police to say Alan Graham was about 10 feet away when the first shot was fired. They said the evidence also showed that additional shots were fired after he was lying on the ground.
The case reached court April 15, three days after the shooting. Andrea Graham appeared before a judge in Calhoun County and pleaded not guilty. Court coverage said she faced a felony murder charge in Alan Graham’s death and a charge of carrying a pistol while attempting to commit a felony. Her attorney described her as a stay-at-home mother of two. He said she had no prior felony convictions but had two misdemeanors. Graham did not comment on the allegations during the arraignment.
The judge denied bond. That ruling kept Graham in custody during the early stage of the case, when prosecutors need to show enough evidence for the charges to continue. Local reports listed a probable cause conference for April 22 and a preliminary examination for April 29. Those hearings are procedural, but they can shape the case by revealing what evidence prosecutors are ready to present and what parts of the police account the defense may challenge.
The address itself has been described in public reports as a Ridgeway Drive home in Battle Creek, a Calhoun County city in southwest Michigan. The police department’s first statement placed the call in the 100 block of South Ridgeway Drive. Other local court reporting used North Ridgeway Drive. The known facts do not change the central timeline: a call shortly before 4:30 p.m., a woman outside directing police inside, a man found wounded in the home and a homicide charge filed within days.
Several facts remain unknown. Police have not publicly released the full autopsy, the complete 911 audio or all photographs and forensic reports from the home. They have not said whether anyone else was present or whether neighbors reported hearing shots. Available reports also do not show a full defense response to the investigators’ claim that the evidence contradicted Graham’s account. Those gaps leave the courtroom, rather than the first police release, as the place where the detailed sequence will be tested.
The case now stands as a murder prosecution built from a small set of key facts: a 911 call, a dead husband, a wife’s self-defense claim, a recovered pistol and forensic details police say point away from that claim. As of the latest public reports, Graham remained held without bond while the murder and firearm charges moved through Calhoun County court.
Author note: Last updated May 7, 2026.