GRAND RAPIDS, MI – An attorney for the former police officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya criticized an ardent Lyoya supporter who claimed defense “antics and tactics” delayed the legal process.
Matthew Borgula, attorney for former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr, also said that his client did not receive favorable treatment by the justice system.
Schurr, charged with second-degree murder in Lyoya’s April 2022 fatal shooting, is awaiting a decision from Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker about whether he will be retried after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict, resulting in a mistrial.
Robert Womack, a Kent County commissioner, arranged an event Wednesday, May 14, at Hero’s Corner in Kentwood where he and Lyoya’s father, Peter, spoke about the loss as well as the criminal case that went to trial three years after the killing.
Womack said defense appeals to the state Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case, were “antics and tactics by the defense team probably to make people forget about it … .”…