Earlier this month, he was charged with murder for shooting Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after a traffic stop
was fired from his position last Friday, according to officials. “Last Friday, the Police Chief and the Labor Relations Office recommended that I terminate Christopher Schurr’s employment with the City,” city manager Mark Washington said in a statement. “I accepted that recommendation...and, therefore, I have decided to terminate Mr. Schurr’s employment with the Grand Rapids Police Department.” Schurr also waived his right to a discharge hearing. .
“Where have you been for the last two months and nearly two weeks?” asked family attorney Ven Johnson. Johnson reiterated that the Lyoya family has been calling for the city to fire Schurr from the moment their son was killed. “Once they found out that [Lyoya] was unarmed,—once they found out and had the video that my client was facedown in the dirt, it’s raining, no shoes on, right,” charged Johnson. “And Shurr was on top of his back, reaches back to his gun ...
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