GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker’s decision not to retry former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr comes as no surprise to experts familiar with such cases. Becker issued his decision Thursday,

Demonstrators gathered outside the Kent County Courthouse Thursday evening after the prosecutor decided not to retry the murder case against a former Grand Rapids police officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyoya following a traffic stop in 2022.

A member of the jury that couldn’t reach a verdict in the Christopher Schurr murder trial said race never came up in the deliberations, that Schurr helped himself by taking the stand and that

Christopher Schurr, a former Grand Rapids police officer, will not be retried in Patrick Lyoya's April 4, 2022, killing. A deadlocked jury resulted in a mistrial.

Christopher Schurr's attorneys Matthew Borgula and Mark Dodge held a press conference to respond to the prosecution's decision not to seek a retrial.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The mayor and city manager for Grand Rapids are reacting after Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker announced on Thursday that he will not retry former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr in the death of Patrick Lyoya.