Two-thirds of the grand rapids triple murder, from last november, is solved; bLACK, 19-year-old charged; it looks to have been drug related

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
thursday, october 17, 2024 at 9:28:00 p.m. edt

GRA: Like a friends episode title, I call this, “The One That Had Two Dead Bodies in the Road.” The other vic’s murder—on that day—has not yet been linked to the negro perp.

“grand rapids, mich. (wood) — a gun found by a passerby and a bloody jacket were the key pieces of evidence that led authorities to charge a man with murder in the deaths of two people in grand rapids’ Burton heights neighborhood last year.

“‘because of the excellent work by the detectives and the cooperation of people, good people in the city, we’ve been able to charge an individual in the killing of both Anayia Rodriguez and Malik Eubanks,” grand rapids police department chief Eric Winstrom told news 8 thursday.

“Casey Harmon Jr., 19, was charged with two counts of open murder and weapons charges in connection to the nov. 6, 2023, deaths.

“court documents dated wednesday say Harmon ‘made admissions to associates that he committed these homicides.’ no specific motive has been laid out by authorities, but the documents say that Harmon and Eubanks knew one another, that Harmon didn’t like Eubanks and he had made ‘derogatory statements’ about him.

“Winstrom said the investigation had a number of moving parts, with ‘tenacious’ detectives having to carefully piece together evidence and details from multiple sites.

“Eubanks, 19, was found shot dead in the street on Horton avenue se near Melville street. the body of his girlfriend, Rodriguez, 20, was found just around the corner, on Melville near Francis avenue.

“court documents say that Eubanks and Rodriguez had picked up a man in Eubanks’ black jeep at an address on Dunham street se near Fuller avenue between 20 and 30 minutes before their bodies were found.

“surveillance video obtained by target 8 shows the jeep stopping at a small park at the corner at Blaine avenue se and Ottillia street to drop off Eubanks’ son moments after the bodies were dumped. police said the boy, a toddler, was unharmed, but had blood on him and likely witnessed the murders — something the chief called ‘unforgivable.’

“nearby where the boy was left, Winstrom said, officers found a discarded jacket with blood on it.

“‘that jacket turned out to be an important piece of evidence moving forward,’ he said.

“court documents called the jacket ‘distinct,’ saying it had ‘several nba logos’ on it. a witness told investigators that the man Eubanks and Rodriguez had picked up was wearing it.

“shortly after the boy was found wandering, police got a call about a gun being found a few blocks away on Blaine se near Burton street. Winstrom said someone stumbled upon it while out for a walk. ballistics ultimately confirmed that was the murder weapon, investigators say.

“‘finding that one piece of evidence and being able to not only prove that that was, in fact, the murder weapon, but then as we moved through our process of uncovering evidence … I believe there actually was a picture of the offender with the murder weapon in his possession. I think that it’s probably the most important piece of evidence in this case,’ Winstrom said.

“Harmon had been in jail on perjury charges since march.”

GRA: Cops got some luck and took advantage of it, but the third murder is still unsolved—which occurred in that immediate neighborhood—at the same time.

--GRA

N.S.: I think the set of two murders was drug related, because the alleged killer picked up the vics, and secondly, because he committed premeditated murder in front of their toddler.

As far as the suspect having made “derogatory statements” about one of the vics, everyone makes “derogatory statements” about everyone, without killing them. Oh, but I wasn’t thinking about blacks.

As for the second set of one killing that night, is it possible that, things bein’ how they are in present-day grand rapids, it was unrelated to the set of two? I hope I’m wrong.

Note that the msm have refused to tell us anything about the vics' background.