A duo of deadly shootings within a month’s time of each other is “out of character” for the Baxter neighborhood, says Grand Rapids Police Chief Eric Winstrom.
“Obviously, I hope it never happens again,” Winstrom said on Tuesday in an interview with FOX 17. “I don’t think the neighborhood should be known for it and I think most everyone there wants to live in peace.”
During the waning hours of the Labor Day weekend, shortly after 2:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning, a man was fatally shot in the southeast Grand Rapids neighborhood on Diamond Avenue near Wealthy Street.
Winstrom says a pair of GRPD officers, on patrol at the time to the north and to the south, heard the gunfire and rushed to the scene…