Black Opens Fire on Crowded Grand Rapids Street—over $20 Drug Deal—Escapes; Media are Exposed for Covering up Frequent Shootings at Intersection

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 10:16:00 A.M. EDT

GRA: This was breaking news yesterday. Eleven shots were fired by a black drug dealer. This area is the original ghetto area of GR (since spread elsewhere). Note the witness telling WOOD, “This happens frequently.”
But you never hear about it on the news. First honest bit of reporting I've seen in years.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Police say a bullet grazed a man’s head after shots were fired near the busy Franklin St. and Eastern Ave. intersection on the southeast side of Grand Rapids Friday.

The violence that shut the area roads down for hours into Friday evening is believed to have sparked at around 5 p.m. because of a drug debt. One man allegedly owed the other $20, police said citing their preliminary investigation. When the two met up near Hall St. and Franklin Ave. shots were fired. [N.S.: Note the passive voice. Who fired the shots?]

“Unfortunately we got numerous innocent folks at an intersection at five o’clock — uncalled for on all levels,” said GRPD Sgt. John Wittkowski, the command officer on the scene. “Particularly over a 20 dollar drug debt.”

The man who was hit was the intended target. Police say he suffered a grazing gunshot wound to the head and was able to give himself to the hospital to be treated.

“He’s a lucky man,” Sgt. Wittkowski said.

The suspect took off the scene prompting police to set up a perimeter in the area and call out tactical officers as they believed the suspect was in a home near the crime scene. [N.S.: Two commas are missing from the previous sentence.] But the alleged shooter was not there. The woman who was with him in the car when the shots were fired was located.

Police say they struggled to get concrete information from the woman about the identity of the man who did the shooting.

[N.S.: So arrest her as an accessory after the fact.]

Investigators say they found at least ten shell casings at the scene. At least one round shattered the windshield of a vehicle that had a woman and her daughter inside. They were not hurt.

“You saw there was holes in the windshield,” Wittkowski said. “By the grace of God, she was not injured. This could have been far worse.”

The sound of the gunfire was captured on the video surveillance system of the Metro PCS cellphone store in the area. Yasser Bahhy, the store’s owner, said he took cover after hearing the sound of shots being fired.

“Just another day in the hood to be honest,” Bahhy said of the incident. “This is Eastern and Franklin. Stuff like this doesn’t probably happen on the daily, but it does go down over here.”

Police said they had not located the suspect as of late Friday night.