GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Jury choice within the trial of the officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyoya greater than three years in the past is about to get underway this week. The juror questioning course of begins Monday, and jury choice will get underway Tuesday.
It was round 8:10 a.m. on April 4, 2022 when Christopher Schurr, then a Grand Rapids Police Division officer, stopped a automotive pushed by Lyoya, 26, on Nelson Avenue on town’s southeast facet. The plates evidently did not match the car.
Police mentioned there was a battle following the visitors cease that in the end led to the officer taking pictures and killing Lyoya.
Per week and a half later, on April 13, the division launched 4 movies of the incident, from a dashboard digicam, a physique digicam, a doorbell digicam and a cellphone.
Three years after Patrick Lyoya’s demise, former GRPD officer’s homicide trial close to
Within the movies, Lyoya, a Congolese refugee, is seen working away. The officer goes after him, and the 2 start struggling over the officer’s Taser. Lyoya finally finally ends up on the bottom, with the officer attempting to carry him down. The officer pulls out his gun and shoots Lyoya at the back of the top, killing him.
On April 25, Grand Rapids Police Chief Eric Winstrom recognized Schurr because the officer concerned. Winstrom started the method of firing Schurr on June 9, the identical day Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker introduced he was pursuing expenses in opposition to Schurr.
The subsequent day, June 10, Schurr was formally charged with second-degree homicide. He pleaded not responsible and posted a $100,000 bond.
In October 2022, a district choose dominated that Schurr will face a jury trial.
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Trial dates have been repeatedly pushed again, as Schurr’s attorneys appealed the choose’s resolution a number of instances, taking all of it the best way as much as the Michigan Supreme Courtroom. The courts in any respect ranges constantly held that the fees have been justified, and the ultimate ruling from the state’s excessive court docket got here down on Dec. 2, 2024.
On Dec. 12, a trial date was set for April 28, with jury choice starting April 22.
If convicted, Christopher Schurr, 31, faces as much as life in jail with the potential of parole.
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— Editor’s observe: This text has been up to date to make clear the juror choice course of timeline.
