Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 8:49:00 P.M. EST
37th Murder on Grand Rapids Street Today
GRPD: 1 dead in Heritage Hill neighborhood shooting
GRAND RAPIDS
by: WOODTV.com staff
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Grand Rapids police are investigating a homicide after one person was shot and killed Tuesday morning in the city’s Heritage Hill neighborhood.
Police told News 8 multiple 911 calls came in around 11:15 a.m. about a shooting on Prospect Avenue SE just south of Cherry Street SE.
Officers say 28-year-old Unique Camreil Evans was walking along the sidewalk when he was shot multiple times.
GRA: Unique, [chuckle].
An undated courtesy photo of Unique Evans.
When police arrived at the scene, they found Evans with a gunshot wound. First responders performed CPR and took the victim to a nearby hospital. Evans was pronounced dead by medical staff and his family has been notified, police say.
“There is no other way to describe this senseless murder other than to call it an execution,” said Police Chief Eric Payne in a news release.
Officers say they found the suspect [sic] car around 12:50 p.m. Tuesday on the city’s West Side. Police tried to stop the car but it drove off. The car eventually crashed on Hamilton Avenue and 11th Street NW, according to the Grand Rapids Police Department.
The suspects were uninjured and taken into custody for further investigation, police say.
An autopsy for Evans will be conducted by the Kent County Medical Examiner’s Office.
There has been a record-breaking 37 murders in Grand Rapids this year.
--GRA
2 comments:
Unique? I bet he was.
And to all this Gerry Ford would say?
Not "unique"--a typical black thug.Ford would never have lived in the GR of today.He moved to California after being president and it's possible he wouldn't have lived there either if he were in his 70s in 2020.My guess--Hawaii.
--GRA
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