Patrick Lyoya and Da’Quain Johnson: Comparing, contrasting deadly police shootings

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A deadly encounter between a man and two Grand Rapids police officers has drawn scrutiny nearly four years after national attention was focused on a different high-profile police shooting in the city.

Family identified Da’Quain Johnson as the 32-year-old who was fatally shot Feb. 18 following an altercation with police in the parking lot of an apartment complex on Eastern Avenue SE.

It happened roughly two miles north of the scene where former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr shot and killed Patrick Lyoya in 2022 during a traffic stop…

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