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The Grand Rapids Police Department was established in 1871 with eight patrolmen operating under one chief. [3] [4] The police department originally operated under the direction of the mayor and city council, though a separate board of commissioners was created for police and fire department in 1881, initially creating conflict between city ...
2011 Grand Rapids shootings. On July 7, 2011, a gunman killed seven people and wounded two others in a spree killing in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The deaths took place in two homes, with the two non-fatal gunshot injuries taking place on the road. The suspected gunman, Rodrick Shonte Dantzler, later killed himself after a police chase which left ...
Website. GrandRapidsMI.gov. Grand Rapids is a city in and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States. [4] At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 198,893, [5] making it the second-most populous city in Michigan, after Detroit. Grand Rapids is the central city of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area, which has a population of ...
Killing of Patrick Lyoya. On April 4, 2022, Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old resident of Grand Rapids, was fatally shot by Officer Christopher Schurr of the Grand Rapids Police Department during a scuffle between the two in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. After Lyoya began to flee the scene, Schurr attempted to detain him, unsuccessfully ...
The Grand Rapids metropolitan area is a triangular shaped Metro Triplex, in West Michigan, which fans out westward from the primary hub city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, to the other two metro hubs of Muskegon and Holland. The metropolitan area had an estimated population of 1,059,113 in 2017. [ 3 ] The region, noted in particular for its western ...
2011 Grand Rapids shootings: Grand Rapids: 2011-07-07: 8: Spree killing: Murders of Jourdan Bobbish and Jacob Kudla: Detroit: 2012-07: 2: Two white teenagers tortured and murdered in Detroit by two black males: 2016 Kalamazoo shootings: Kalamazoo: 2016-02-20: 6: Shootings at an apartment complex, car dealership and restaurant: St. Joseph ...
Website. Official website. Walker is a city in Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was estimated to be 25,086 in 2022. Walker was originally organized as Walker Township in 1837 and later incorporated as a city in 1962. It is part of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area and is bordered by the city of Grand Rapids on the east.
The second-largest city in Michigan, Grand Rapids recorded a murder rate of 13.8 per 100,000 in 2020, more than double of the United States rate of 7.8 per 100,000. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The overall crime rate declined by one-third between 2003 and 2011, [ 14 ] but Grand Rapids set a record with 38 homicides in 2020.