GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (FOX 2) - The Kent County Prosecutor announced second-degree murder charges against Grand Rapids Police Officer Christopher Schurr for the shooting death of Patrick Lyoya on April 4.Prosecutor Chris Becker announced the charges during a 3 p.m.
press conference after more than two months of investigation by his office and the Michigan State Police.Second degree murder is a felony offense and he could face life in prison, if convicted.
Schurr is being charged after shooting and killing Lyoya in the back of the head during a struggle. Schurr pulled Lyoya over that day due a license plate issue.
The plate on the car Lyoya was driving did not match the vehicle."The elements are relatively simple. First, there was a death done by the defendant and when the killing occurred, the defendant had one of these three states of mind: an intent to kill, intent to do great bodily harm, or an intent to do an act that the natural tendency of that act would be to cause death or great bodily harm, and finally that the death was just not justified or excused, for example, by self-defense," Becker said.Who was Patrick Lyoya?