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Video footage released Wednesday depicts a white Grand Rapids police officer fatally shooting Patrick Lyoya, 26, on April 4. State officials have promised a full investigation.
Schurr was a Grand Rapids officer when he shot Patrick Lyoya, 26, in the back of the head at the end of a brief foot chase and intense physical struggle. He was subsequently fired and has been ...
Grand Rapids In aftermath of Patrick Lyoya killing, Grand Rapids police chief plans improved de-escalation training Updated: Apr. 27, 2022, 9:23 a.m. | Published: Apr. 27, 2022, 7:46 a.m. 5 1/5 ...
Video footage released Wednesday depicts a white Grand Rapids police officer fatally shooting Patrick Lyoya, 26, on April 4. State officials have promised a full investigation.
The Grand Rapids Police Department will be releasing the video of the fatal police shooting of Patrick Lyoya at a press conference scheduled for 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 13.
As protests and calls for police accountability flooded Grand Rapids in the days and weeks after the April 2022 killing of Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old Congolese refugee fatally shot by a city ...
Patrick Lyoya’s family filed the civil lawsuit against former Grand Rapids police Officer Christopher Schurr and the city of Grand Rapids on Wednesday in a US district court in Michigan.
They addressed the nine videos released by Grand Rapids police Wednesday, about 20 minutes of footage, saying, "Nothing Patrick did justified (the officer) reaching for his revolver, putting it ...
A man who witnessed the struggle between Patrick Lyoya and the Grand Rapids police officer who fatally shot him told CNN on Friday he knew the incident wouldn’t end well.
Peter Lyoya took his six children from Congo in 2014 to escape violence. Now he fears he brought them to the U.S. to die. A Michigan police officer fatally shot his eldest son, 26-year-old Patrick ...
Nearly a hundred people gathered at Veterans Memorial Park at a community protest for Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by a Grand Rapids police officer earlier this month.
On April 4, about 8 a.m., a white Grand Rapids police officer saw a young Black man driving. The officer decided to call in the license plate number and determined the plates belonged to another car.