A Michigan father of two was shot and killed Saturday after a confrontation with his neighbor turned deadly, police said. 

The violence unfolded just before noon in a quiet residential neighborhood in Canton. One neighbor told FOX 2 the neighborhood had never had an episode like this in the more than three decades he had been living there. 

Canton police officers were dispatched to the 200 block of Cornell Street in response to an apparent confrontation between two neighbors. 

Responding officers found the victim with gunshot wounds. He was transported to a local hospital, where he died. 

The shooting suspect, later identified as 47-year-old Devereaux Christopher Johnson, barricaded himself inside his home before eventually surrendering to police. 

"This was a senseless act of violence toward the victim," Canton Police Chief Chad Baugh said in a statement. "The Canton Police Department sends our deepest condolences to the victim’s family, and to the neighbors who may have witnessed this tragic event." 

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The victim was identified as Nathan Morris, a 35-year-old engineer at Ford Motors and a father of two. 

A GoFundMe page set up by Morris’ family described him as a "family man first and foremost [who] was active in the community and ran for the Canton School Board recently." 

Michigan RNC Committeewoman Hima Kolanagireddy said Morris got involved in politics when Ford mandated COVID-19 vaccines. She said she "worked closely with him as the former Chair of the MI-6th CDRC, and as a member of the Wayne 6th CDRC, of which he was a secretary." 

"On Saturday, while taking a stroll with his family in his neighborhood, his daughter touched the mulch of one of the neighbors. The neighbor took a gun out and started threatening the family," Kolanagireddy said. "Nathan sent his family home and said that he would try and defuse the situation, but instead was shot and killed."

Kolanagireddy described Morris as "a gentle soul" who was "near perfect." 

"He would do no harm and think no harm," she wrote. 

Johnson was arraigned Monday in the 35th District Court on first-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a weapon. Judge James A. Plakas remanded Johnson to be held at the Wayne County jail without bond. 

Johnson’s next court hearing is scheduled for Aug. 23.

The federal government is processing U.S. citizenship applications at its fastest pace in decades, with thousands of immigrants becoming newly minted citizens every week, possibly helping sway the result of November’s election.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USIS) is taking an average of 4.9 months to process naturalization applications in the first nine months of the current fiscal year, a pace not seen since 2013 and 2014, according to a report from the New York Times.

The under five-month average processing time is a far cry from that pace set just three years ago, when it took roughly 11.5 months for authorities to process a naturalization application.

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Overall, 3.3 million immigrants have become naturalized citizens since President Biden took office, in part thanks to the administration shortening the naturalization application to 14 pages instead of the previous 20. The administration also raised the fee to apply in April to $710, up from the previous $640, but made it easier for low-income applicants to qualify for a discount.

Green card holders, known as lawful permanent residents, become eligible for American citizenship after five years of holding legal status. Others can become eligible quicker, such as those married to an American citizen for at least three years.

The newly minted American citizens will have rights not afforded to permanent residents, the New York Times report notes, including the right to vote in the upcoming election.

"The surge in naturalization efficiency isn’t just about clearing backlogs; it’s potentially reshaping the electorate, merely months before a pivotal election," Xiao Wang, chief executive of Boundless, a company that offers services to immigrants seeking help with the naturalization process, told the New York Times. "Every citizenship application could be a vote that decides Senate seats or even the presidency."

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While the report notes that it is unclear how many of the new citizens will be eligible to vote in critical swing states, it points out that all such states will have a growing number of newly minted U.S. citizens eligible to hit the ballot box. In one case, a ceremony in Georgia saw people from 19 countries pack into a federal courthouse to make their new citizenship official.

Currently, about nine million more permanent residents are eligible for naturalization, with the report noting that the largest share are Latinos, who have historically supported Democratic candidates. 

Newly minted citizens have also historically expressed excitement about voting, with one U.S. Immigration Policy Center survey showing 81.4% of naturalized citizens indicated they "definitely" would vote in 2024 and another 14% said they "probably" would.

"This is a wonderful country that we want to be fully a part of," Nishang Patel, a 28-year-old dentist and native of Kenya who became a naturalized U.S. citizen, told the New York Times. "We will contribute and vote."

Neither the White House nor USCIS immediately responded to Fox News Digital requests for comment.

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