GRAND RAPIDS MASS SHOOTING,IN OCT 2016 IS RESOLVED. GRA:I posted this at the time it occurred.One of our bigger mass shootings--since Danzler 6 years ago. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — On the day his trial was scheduled to begin, a man admitted to a deadly shooting at a Grand Rapids strip mall in October.
In Kent County Circuit Court Monday, Jokari Lowery pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and a felony firearm charge.
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1 dead, 8 hurt in shooting along 28th St. in Grand Rapids GRPD: Surveillance video shows ‘chaos’ after shooting Man charged with Oct. murder at 28th St. strip mall Authorities say that on Oct. 9, 2016, he opened fire at a birthday party being held at a strip mall on 28th Street east of Kalamazoo Avenue. Nine people were shot. One of them, 21-year-old Juwan Boykin, was killed.
Juwan Boykin An undated courtesy photo of Juwan Boykin. Lowery was arrested in late January in Grand Rapids and initially charged with four felony counts.
Under the terms of the plea agreement reached on the day his trial would have started, the prosecutor recommended a 30-year prison sentence: 28 for the murder charge and two for the weapons charge.
The judge is not bound to honor that recommendation at sentencing, which is scheduled for Aug. 17. --GR Anonymous
GRAND RAPIDS MASS SHOOTING,IN OCT 2016 IS RESOLVED.
ReplyDeleteGRA:I posted this at the time it occurred.One of our bigger mass shootings--since Danzler 6 years ago.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — On the day his trial was scheduled to begin, a man admitted to a deadly shooting at a Grand Rapids strip mall in October.
In Kent County Circuit Court Monday, Jokari Lowery pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and a felony firearm charge.
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1 dead, 8 hurt in shooting along 28th St. in Grand Rapids
GRPD: Surveillance video shows ‘chaos’ after shooting
Man charged with Oct. murder at 28th St. strip mall
Authorities say that on Oct. 9, 2016, he opened fire at a birthday party being held at a strip mall on 28th Street east of Kalamazoo Avenue. Nine people were shot. One of them, 21-year-old Juwan Boykin, was killed.
Juwan Boykin
An undated courtesy photo of Juwan Boykin.
Lowery was arrested in late January in Grand Rapids and initially charged with four felony counts.
Under the terms of the plea agreement reached on the day his trial would have started, the prosecutor recommended a 30-year prison sentence: 28 for the murder charge and two for the weapons charge.
The judge is not bound to honor that recommendation at sentencing, which is scheduled for Aug. 17.
--GR Anonymous