july 4th dependence day in grand rapids: black would-be robbers—on bicycles—intercept a pedestrian of unknown race, who shot and killed one of the bicyclists; worthless, White, chief of police Eric Winstrom breathes a sigh of relief that none of his men was involved, and speaks of would-be bicycle-perp as “victim”; authorities and msm scramble identities of perps and vics; authorities must check shooter’s race, and get their lies straight, in order to determine whether a “crime” has been committed; White witness, whom msm seeks to get killed, gave report

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Tuesday, July 5, 2022 at 1:22:00 P.M. EDT

GRA: This White witness saw the entire incident and went on TV to talk about it.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (wood) — As grand rapids police work to piece together the details of a Fourth of July shooting that killed a teenager, a neighbor is sharing his account of what happened moments before the gunfire started.

Roger Pickard lives across Leonard Street from where the shooting happened. He was sitting on his porch with a friend when he spotted a young man walking towards College Avenue around 3:40 p.m. Monday.

[GRA: Was he White?

Mixed-to-mostly-White area. I lived one block away, years ago.]

“We seen one guy walk by and then a couple minutes later we seen three guys on bikes come up to the guy that was walking,” Pickard said.

Pickard and his friend say the young men on bicycles were wearing ski masks. Pickard said they were calling out to the person that was walking down the street. Pickard says when the riders finally caught up with the pedestrian, the situation escalated.

“When they all stopped over there, we didn’t know what was going on. We heard the popping, like four to five pops and all of a sudden you hear all of the squad cars,” he said. “They dropped their bikes and they all ran after the shots.” Pickard believes the young man who was initially walking down the street ran away from the scene. Pickard said that young man was wearing a backpack.

grand rapids police chief Eric Winstrom says the teenager who died was one of the people on the bicycles. The victim [sic] was found shot to death between two homes on Leonard Street.

(Police respond to a deadly shooting in the 500 block of Leonard St. NE in Grand Rapids on July 4, 2022.)

A family member told news 8 the victim [sic] was a 16-year-old boy whose mother lives in the area. However, police haven’t released the victim’s [sic] name or age.

Family members that arrived at the scene were screaming and in tears. One relative was heard saying, “They took my baby from me.”

[GRA: “They?” Is she insinuating a White man did this? No one is describing the race of the shooter.]

“I’m really surprised. My heart goes out to the family for their loss. It’s tragic somebody that young was killed. I’m devastated with all of the gun violence and everything that is going on nowadays,” Pickard said.

[N.S.: “Tragic”? The heck, it is. More like a blessing.]

Winstrom says witnesses to the shooting are cooperating with the investigation. However, no one was in custody for the shooting as of Monday night.

[N.S.: Why should anyone be “in custody”? The pedestrian was the real vic.]

GRA: An attempted robbery is what it sounds like. Actually, the race of the person who shot the black 16-year-old, MIGHT have been an armed White. No description given. Could have been a black drug dealer.

--GRA