A trial date has been set for the civil lawsuit filed by the family of Patrick Lyoya against the former Grand Rapids Police Department (GRPD) officer who shot and killed Lyoya in April 2022. Lyoya's ...

A trial date has been set in the civil wrongful death lawsuit against former Grand Rapids Police officer Christopher Schurr in the death of Patrick Lyoya. (June 20, 2025) ...

The long-awaited jury trial of former Grand Rapids, Michigan, police officer Christopher Schurr, who has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Patrick Lyoya, an unarmed Congolese ...

Updated: Apr 4, 2024 / 11:25 PM EDT GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Two years after a then-Grand Rapids police officer shot and killed Patrick Lyoya, there is no scheduled date for a murder trial.

Attorneys for former Grand Rapids Police Officer Christopher Schurr asked the state Court of Appeals to dismiss a second-degree murder charge in the killing of Black motorist Patrick Lyoya.

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 Grand Rapids dismissed from Patrick Lyoya death lawsuit, officer who shot him still in Updated: Sep. 01, 2023, 6:10 p.m. | Published: Aug. 28, 2023, 7:28 p.m.

Since Lyoya’s death, Grand Rapids police have not fatally shot any community members, although state police determined Patrick Jones, a Black homicide suspect, fatally shot himself in December ...

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.

Lyoya, a Black man, was fatally shot in the back of the head by Grand Rapids Police Officer Christopher Schurr, 31, following a struggle as Lyoya, 26 at the time of his death, attempted to flee a ...

Footage from the shooting of Patrick Lyoya by Grand Rapids Police is released during a press conference Wednesday, April 13, 2022, in downtown Grand Rapids. Lyoya was shot and killed by a city ...