UNCOVERED: 5 | History Defined

Grand Rapids Starbucks store becomes first in Michigan to unionize

A Starbucks store in Grand Rapids, Michigan has become the first location in Michigan to unionize amid a broader unionization movement within the Seattle-based coffee chain.

Tribune News Service · May 14, 2022

Advocates demand prosecutor charge white Michigan policeman in Black refugee's death

"I'm asking for justice," says Peter Lyoya, whose son Patrick Lyoya, 26, was fatally shot by Grand Rapids police officer, Christopher Schurr, 31, during a traffic stop last month.

WEKU · May 12, 2022

Patrick Lyoya was super drunk under law when pulled over in fatal traffic stop, exam finds

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The blood-alcohol level of the man shot and killed by a Grand Rapids police officer last month was more than three times the legal limit, according to a Kent County medical examiner's autopsy and toxicology report released Monday to The Detroit News under a public records…

Tribune News Service · May 9, 2022

NAACP: Michigan attorney general must investigate Lyoya case

A civil rights group is demanding that the Michigan attorney general investigate the police shooting of Patrick Lyoya, warning the longstanding relationship between the county prosecutor's office and Grand Rapids police could lead to bias

The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2022

Who is Christopher Schurr, the officer who shot Patrick Lyoya?

A Grand Rapids police officer who fatally shot a man in the back of the head during a struggle that followed a traffic stop on April 4 shared a connection with him eight years ago and half a world away.

Tribune News Service · Apr 26, 2022

Police release name of Grand Rapids officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Grand Rapids Police Chief Eric Winstrom on Monday released the name of the officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyoya on April 4.

Tribune News Service · Apr 25, 2022

US police release name of officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya

Lyoya’s family and supporters demanded the officer, Christopher Schurr, be named publicly and face criminal charges.

Al Jazeera · Apr 25, 2022

Police chief releases name of officer who shot Patrick Lyoya

Grand Rapids, Michigan, police have identified Christopher Schurr as the officer who killed Patrick Lyoya three weeks ago

The Independent UK · Apr 25, 2022

Youth activists in Detroit demand accountability in Lyoya killing

DETROIT — Youth activists on Sunday chanted demands for justice for the family of Patrick Lyoya in front of the "Spirit of Detroit," bringing outrage over the April 4 killing of the Black refugee by a police officer in Grand Rapids to the city's municipal building before marching up Woodward…

Tribune News Service · Apr 25, 2022

Trump-backed candidate wins Michigan GOP nod in primary kickoff

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — One of Donald Trump’s two hand-picked candidates for Michigan government positions won an endorsement at the state’s Republican convention to run in November and another is in a close run-off, a sign that the former president still has sway with voters.

Tribune News Service · Apr 24, 2022