DETROIT — Former Grand Rapids Police Department Officer Christopher Schurr is set to stand trial on second-degree murder in the killing of 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya after a judge decided Friday to rejected the request by the officer's attorneys to dismiss the case.
Schurr's legal team had sought to dismiss the case following a ruling late last year by Grand Rapids district court Judge Nicholas Ayoub, who found the prosecutors had sufficient evidence to proceed with the case and bound the murder charge over for trial. Kent County Circuit Court Judge Christina Elmore agreed with Ayoub on Friday.
Lyoya, a Black man who moved to the United States with his family as Congolese refugees, was killed on the morning of April 4 after getting pulled over by then-police officer Schurr while driving through a Grand Rapids neighborhood when he was pulled over by then-police officer Schurr.
