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Now let's get into today's case.

Music us up. Now let's get into today's kiss. He was attention deficit hyperactive disorder as well as autistic.

He had speech and motor impairments. Norton Shores is the kind of place that slips easily into the background of a map.

It's quiet, picturesque and unassuming.

Tucked along the western edge of Michigan in Muskegon County, this lakeside community

sits cradled between the tranquil waters of Mona Lake and the vast, endless stretch of Lake.

Its roots reached back to 1845 when it was first carved from Ottawa County and named Norton Township.

Two years later, Robinson's mill rose near Mona Lake, and in the decades that followed, the dense forest gave way to fruit farms.

By the 1850s, berries and apples were the backbone of the local economy, carted by hand

to waiting boats that connected the inland lake to the open waters of Lake Michigan.

By the late 1960s, change loomed. Facing the thread of annexation, the township made a decision.

In 1968, it formerly incorporated as the city of Norton Shores. Since then, the city has settled into its

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