The family of Patrick Lyoya says the decision not to retry former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr for their son’s death has extended their heartbreak.
The family of a Congolese immigrant fatally shot by a Grand Rapids police officer in 2022 said Thursday they believe retrying the case would have resulted in a conviction.
The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed appeals by families of students killed or wounded at Oxford High School in 2021, ending efforts to hold employees partly responsible for the mass shooting.
A Michigan police officer who fatally shot a Black man in the back of the head after a tumultuous traffic stop will not face a second murder trial, a prosecutor announced on May 22, two weeks after a trial ended without a unanimous verdict.
