<ul class="summary-list"><li>The officer who fatally shot <keyword id="13622047" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="patrick-lyoya" source="Orion">Patrick Lyoya</keyword> at a traffic stop has been charged with second-degree murder. </li><li>A Kent County prosecutor, said the officer, Christopher Schurr, acted unreasonably when he shot the 26-year-old Black man. </li></ul>The Michigan police officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya at an April traffic stop will be charged with second-degree murder, Kent County prosecuting attorney Christopher Becker announced Thursday.Becker said the officer, Christopher Schurr, acted unreasonably when he shot the 26-year-old Black man."This is obviously a major decision," Becker said at a press conference. "Based on the evidence I reviewed, I think a second-degree murder charge is appropriate."Lyoya was initially pulled over for having license plates that did not match his vehicle. "We are encouraged by attorney Christopher Becker's decision to charge Christopher Schurr for the brutal killing of Patrick Lyoya, which we all witnessed when the video footage was released to the public," Ben Crump, Lyoya's family's attorney, said in a statement Thursday. "While the road to justice for Patrick and his family has just begun, this decision is a crucial step in the right direction. Officer Schurr must be held accountable for his decision to pursue an unarmed Patrick, ultimately shooting him in the back of the head and killing him – for nothing more than a traffic stop," Crump said. <a href="https://www.insider.com/videos-grand-rapids-officer-shooting-black-man-2022-4">Multiple videos</a> — including the dashcam footage from the police car, bodycam footage from the officer, home security camera footage, and a cellphone video taken by a passenger in the pulled-over car — released at a press conference following the incident helped to piece together what happened at the scene. Bodycam footage showed Schurr asking Lyoya for his license as Lyoya walked away from his car, prompting Schurr to grab him. The officer then attempted to wrestle Lyoya to the ground and first used a Taser, according to video. In the video, Schurr can be heard saying "let go of the Taser." The bodycam footage cut off when the officer was on Lyoya's back. The police department claimed that the pressure of the officer on Lyoya's back caused the camera to "deactivate." But home security camera footage showed the nearly three-minute struggle between the pair, which ends in the officer pinning Lyoya to the ground. Videos from the home security system and from a bystander show the officer appearing to use his Taser at least twice on Lyoya, who appeared to try to grab the Taser from the officer. The videos show the officer wrestling Lyoya to the ground, with Lyoya laying on his stomach and the officer on his back. The officer then appears to shoot Lyoya in the back of the head. "The video clearly shows that this was an unnecessary, excessive, and fatal use of force against an unarmed Black man who was confused by the encounter and terrified for his life," Crump <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/us/grand-rapids-police-shooting-michigan-patrick-lyoya.html?referringSource=articleShare">said at a press conference</a> in April. Meanwhile, defense attorneys representing Schurr called the Lyoya's death "not murder but an unfortunate tragedy, resulting from a highly volatile situation.""Mr. Lyoya continually refused to obey lawful commands and ultimately disarmed a police officer," lawyers Mark Dodge and Matthew Borgula said in a statement to Insider on Friday. "Mr. Lyoya gained full control of a police officer's weapon while resisting arrest, placing Officer Schurr in fear of great bodily harm or death," The attorneys said they are "confident that after a jury hears all of the evidence, Officer Schurr will be exonerated."

Michigan police officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya has been charged with second degree murder

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="11894211" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="police" source="Orion">police</keyword> officer who shot <keyword id="13622047" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="patrick-lyoya" source="Orion">Patrick Lyoya</keyword> in the back of the head during a traffic stop has been identified.</li><li>The police chief identified the officer as Christopher Schurr.</li></ul>The police chief of Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Monday revealed the identity of the officer who shot Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head during an April 4 traffic stop as Christopher Schurr. "In the interest of transparency, to reduce ongoing speculation, and to avoid any further confusion, I am confirming the name already publicly circulating — Christopher Schurr — as the officer involved in the April 4 officer-involved shooting," Chief Eric Winstrom said in a statement shared with <a href="https://apnews.com/article/patrick-lyoya-police-shootings-michigan-grand-rapids-22a942d138f575fe4b39d86cfc48c357?utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow">the Associated Press</a>.Winstrom had previously said he would not release the name of the officer who shot 26-year-old Lyoya unless he was charged with the crime, AP reported. Lyoya's family had repeatedly called for the police department to release the officer's name despite Winstrom saying it was common practice to keep the shooter's identity private, AP reported. <a href="https://www.insider.com/patrick-lyoya-fled-from-violence-to-be-killed-in-us-2022-4">Video footage</a> from the traffic stop shows a struggle between the officer and Lyoya as the officer tried to wrestle Lyoya to the ground. The footage shows the officer using a taser and telling Lyoya to "let go of the taser." Footage shows the officer then pinning Lyoya to the ground and using a taser on him twice. The video then shows the officer appearing to shoot Lyoya in the back of the head. An independent autopsy commissioned by Lyoya's family's attorneys confirmed that Lyoya's cause of <keyword id="6355784" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="death" source="Orion">death</keyword> was a shot in the back of the head, <a href="https://www.insider.com/patrick-lyoya-shot-back-of-head-michigan-cop-idependent-autopsy-2022-4">Insider previously reported</a>.

Michigan police chief identifies officer who shot Patrick Lyoya as Christopher Schurr

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The family of a Black man fatally shot by a <keyword id="11949172" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="michigan" source="Orion">Michigan</keyword> police officer is calling for justice.</li><li><keyword id="13622047" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="patrick-lyoya" source="Orion">Patrick Lyoya</keyword>'s parents fled the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2014 to escape civil unrest.</li></ul>The family of Patrick Lyoya, <a href="https://www.insider.com/videos-grand-rapids-officer-shooting-black-man-2022-4">the 26-year-old Black man who was fatally shot</a> in the back of the head by a Grand Rapids police officer earlier this month, decried his "execution-style" death in a Thursday press conference, calling for the responsible officer to be identified, terminated, and prosecuted. The press conference came one day after the Grand Rapids Police Department released a series of videos showing the fatal encounter during a traffic stop on April 4, 2022.Patrick's parents, Peter and Dorcas Lyoya, fled the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2014 to escape civil unrest and offer their six children a better life, according to the family's attorney Ben Crump.But through tears on Thursday, Dorcas Lyoya said she was "astonished" that it was here, in the United States, that her son was "killed with bullets.""When we ran away from the war in Congo because it was unsafe, I thought that I came to a safe land, a safe place," she said through an interpreter. Patrick's father, Peter Lyoya, also spoke via interpreter during the press conference, saying his eldest son was "my life.""I was thinking that Patrick would take my place and to see that my son has been killed like an animal by this officer, to see this video they show, I see that I have no life," he said. "I see my heart being broken." The Grand Rapids Police Department on Wednesday released dashcam footage from the police car, bodycam footage from the officer, home security camera footage, and a cellphone video taken by a passenger in a pulled-over car.<div type="image" title="A TV display shows video of a Grand Rapids police officer struggling with and shooting Patrick Lyoya." height="2386" width="4773" msid="90855432" hostid="261"></div>An unidentified white officer can be seen on the body-worn footage asking for Patrick Lyoya's driver license and then grabbing Lyoya after he walked away from the vehicle. The body-camera video captured the officer trying to wrestle Patrick Lyoya to the ground. The officer can be seen using a Taser and later tells Patrick Lyoya to "let go of the Taser."The body-worn camera cuts off as the officer is on Patrick Lyoya's back. The police department said the pressure of the encounter caused the camera to "deactivate."But in graphic footage captured by the home security system, the officer and Patrick Lyoya can be seen in a nearly three-minute struggle that ends with the officer pinning Lyoya to the ground. Footage shows the officer appearing to use his Taser at least twice on Patrick Lyoya, who, at one point, appears to try and grab the officer's Taser. As Patrick Lyoya is laying on his stomach with the officer on his back, the officer appears to shoot Lyoya in the back of the head, telling the bystander filming to "get back."Thomas Lyoya, Patrick's brother, said watching the video was "the most horrifying thing I've ever seen in my life."Patrick's father, Peter Lyoya, said he was shown the video before it was released but told to keep quiet about it — a tactic that Crump said authorities often use in officer-involved shootings in order to try and sweep encounters under the rug. "You kill him with a bullet and now you're telling me to keep secret?" Peter Lyoya said.In a response to a request for comment, a spokesperson for the Grand Rapids Police Department pointed Insider to a <a href="https://www.grandrapidsmi.gov/Critical-Incident-April-4">critical incident information webpage</a> on the shooting.The family also called on authorities to identify the officer after the department said Wednesday that he would not be named as he has not been charged with a crime. "Patrick's family is asking that the state attorney charge [the officer] to the full extent of the law for killing their son, for breaking their hearts, for making his young children orphans, fatherless," Crump said.

Family of a Black man shot in the head by Grand Rapids police officer said they fled from violence abroad only to see their son killed in the US

<ul class="summary-list"><li>An independent autopsy confirmed that Patrick Lyoya was shot in the back of the head by a <keyword id="11949172" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="michigan" source="Orion">Michigan</keyword> cop, attorneys said.</li><li>"This independent autopsy report confirms what we all witnessed in the horrifying video footage," said lawyer Ben Crump, the AP reported.</li></ul>Attorneys for the family of Patrick Lyoya said on Tuesday that an independent autopsy confirmed that the 26-year-old Black man was <a href="https://www.insider.com/patrick-lyoya-fled-from-violence-to-be-killed-in-us-2022-4">shot in the back of the head by a Michigan cop</a>. Lyoya was fatally shot by a white Grand Rapids <keyword id="11894211" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="police" source="Orion">police</keyword> officer during a traffic stop on April 4. Last week, the Grand Rapids Police Department <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8uTKq8lTms">released a series of videos</a> that showed the killing of Lyoya, who was lying face-down on the ground."This independent autopsy report confirms what we all witnessed in the horrifying video footage: Unarmed Patrick Lyoya was conscious until the bullet entered his head, instantly ending what could have been a long and fruitful life," the family's attorney Ben Crump said on Tuesday, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/patrick-lyoya-shootings-michigan-detroit-police-6684358f9218b32a94a59e9490ba484b?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter">according to the Associated Press</a>. The independent autopsy was performed by Dr. Werner Spitz, a former Detroit-area medical examiner, the Associated Press reported.Lyoya's official autopsy report has not been released. Grand Rapids police have not publicly identified the officer that killed Lyoya, and charges haven't been filed yet against the cop.This story is developing. Please check back for updates.

An independent autopsy found Patrick Lyoya was shot in the back of the head by a Michigan police officer

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Authorities in <keyword id="13584066" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="grand-rapids" source="Orion">Grand Rapids</keyword>, Michigan have released videos of the fatal <keyword id="11922278" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="shooting" source="Orion">shooting</keyword> of Patrick Lyoya.</li><li>The 26-year-old Congolese immigrant was shot by an unnamed white officer during a traffic stop on April 4.</li></ul>On Wednesday, the Grand Rapids <keyword id="11894211" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="police" source="Orion">Police</keyword> Department <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8uTKq8lTms">released a series of videos</a> that show the fatal <keyword id="12021659" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="police-shooting" source="Orion">police shooting</keyword> of Patrick Lyoya, 26, during a traffic stop.Lyoya, a Black man, was pulled over by an unnamed white officer on April 4, 2022. During the traffic stop, the officer tells him that the license plate does not match the vehicle, and Lyoya asks the officer, "What did I do wrong?"The videos released during a press conference include the dashcam footage from the police car, bodycam footage from the officer, home security camera footage, and a cellphone video taken by a passenger in the pulled-over car.The body-worn camera footage shows the officer asking for Lyoya's driver's license and then grabbing Lyoya after he walks away from the vehicle. The officer tries to wrestle Lyoya to the ground several times, and in the video, the officer is first seen using a Taser and heard saying "let go of the Taser."The body camera video cuts off as the officer is on Lyoya's back; the department said that the camera "deactivated" at that point, claiming that pressure turned it off.In the graphic footage captured by the home security system, a nearly three-minute struggle between the officer and Lyoya can be seen. Following the struggle, the officer is seen pinning Lyoya to the ground.In the videos from the home security footage and the bystander, the officer appears to use his Taser at least twice on Lyoya, who on one occasion appears to try to grab the officer's Taser. The videos show the officer wrestling Lyoya to the ground and as he is laying on his stomach with the officer on his back, the officer appears to shoot him in the back of the head. The officer then tells the bystander filming to "Get back!""The video clearly shows that this was an unnecessary, excessive, and fatal use of force against an unarmed Black man who was confused by the encounter and terrified for his life," Ben Crump, Lyoya's family's attorney <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/us/grand-rapids-police-shooting-michigan-patrick-lyoya.html?referringSource=articleShare">said at a press conference</a> today, calling for the officer to be prosecuted in court and fired.According to Crump, Lyoya immigrated to Grand Rapids as a refugee fleeing violence from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2014.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSR8_nSwdNQ">During a press conference</a> at Grand Rapids city hall on Wednesday, officials said that no officers had been charged so far and that no weapons other than the officer's gun or taser were recovered from the scene. Grand Rapids city manager Mark Washington said the video "was painful to watch.""'What caused this to happen, and what more could have been done to prevent this from occurring?'" he asked members of the press at the conference.Grand Rapids Police Chief Eric Winstrom said that the officer was on paid leave with ongoing internal investigations, calling the shooting a tragedy.Following the release of the footage, hundreds of protesters gathered at the Grand Rapids Police Department. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Trisha McCauley (@TrishaWWMT) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1514378834401009669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2022</a></blockquote>"Our hearts are with Patrick Lyoya's family and the Grand Rapids community, who are dealing with unimaginable pain and loss," Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/GovWhitmer/status/1514339038831992843">statement</a>.

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