The Latest: Hundreds gather at vigils for bicyclists killed

Hundreds of people have gathered for memorial services honoring the bicyclists who were killed and injured when a pickup truck struck their group on a road in Michigan.

The Kalamazoo Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1PNIxId ) more than 600 people attended memorial services at two area churches Thursday night.

The 50-year-old driver of the truck was charged Thursday with five counts of second-degree murder and four counts of reckless driving in the crash in Cooper Township, north of Kalamazoo.

A prosecutor in western Michigan says the investigation into a crash that killed five bicyclists and injured four others continues.

Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeffrey Getting says "the filing of formal charges" Thursday against 50-year-old Charles Edward Pickett Jr. is only the first step in the legal process.

Pickett Jr. was charged Thursday with five counts of second-degree murder and four counts of reckless driving resulting in serious injury.

A Michigan prosecutor has charged 50-year-old Charles Edward Pickett Jr with five counts of second degree murder after a pickup truck crashed into a group of bicyclists and killed five people.