Patrick Lyoya

An attorney for Lyoya's family says he doesn't see a conflict in the contribution. Some other Grand Rapids community leaders want the prosecutor to recuse himself.

A reporter discusses the latest news in the shooting death of Patrick Lyoya, and two members of the Greater Grand Rapids NAACP speak about the police reforms that Black Grand Rapids residents have been waiting on for years.

The detail seemed apparent in videos released by GRPD last week, but the autopsy results confirm it. Lyoya's family has called the police shooting an "execution."

In the wake of the Grand Rapids police shooting of 26-year old Patrick Lyoya, tensions in the community have continued to rise. Grand Rapids public officials have been met with an outpouring of indignation, and there are still many questions to be answered.

A Grand Rapids police officer shot and killed a Black man named Patrick Lyoya in a routine traffic stop. The Grand Rapids police chief says to his knowledge, the only weapons recovered at the scene were the officer's taser and firearm. Officials have released footage of the killing, but not the name of the police officer who pulled the trigger.

In a press conference Thursday, attorney Ben Crump described Lyoya’s death as “an execution.”

For years, people in Grand Rapids have warned that the tactics of the city's police department would lead to death. Last week, Patrick Lyoya, a Black man, was shot.