GRPD: Shot fired during gas station robbery

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Thursday, January 7th, 2016, 3:00am

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WZZM) -- Police are looking for the person who robbed a southwest Grand Rapids gas station Wednesday night.

Shortly after 9 o'clock, officers were called to Clyde Park Fuel, police said, on Clyde Park at Alger (along the border with the City of Wyoming).

A single shot was fired during the robbery. No injuries were reported.

We're gathering more details on this developing story.

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Saturday, January 2nd, 2016, 4:42pm

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WZZM) -- Two men who robbed a gas station on the city's Southeast Side still are on the run, police say.

The suspects held up the Mobil gas station at Burton Street and Breton Road SE just after 11:30 a.m. Saturday, according a Grand Rapids police sergeant. They fled the scene on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Both of the men were wearing a dark colored hoodie and ski masks.

Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to contact the Grand Rapids Police Department at 616-456-3400.

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Wednesday, December 30th, 2015, 8:42pm

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WZZM) -- Police suspect Demario Antwan Chandler, 30, is the shooter in an April homicide on Grand Rapids' Southwest Side.

German Antonio Rodriguez-Duarte, 34, was found laying between houses early in the morning of Saturday, April 18, in the 500 block of Hall Street SW, near Caufield Avenue. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

In a news release published Wednesday afternoon, Grand Rapids police say Chandler will be brought back to Grand Rapids for arraignment on Rodriguez-Duarte's death.

Chandler currently is held in Jackson's Cooper Street Correctional Facility on two weapons-related offenses.

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Monday, December 21st, 2015, 9:17pm

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WZZM) -- A tip led to a heavy police presence in parts of the southeast side of Grand Rapids Monday afternoon.

Members of the GRPD Major Case and Special Response teams, as well as members of the Grand Rapids FBI Task Force, were searching for 24-year-old Fredrick Desean Gibbs, who's wanted on a felony parole absconding warrant and a felony warrant for committing perjury on a life offense.

Investigators searched homes in the 2000 block of Kalamazoo Ave. SE, near Burton St., and in the 1100 block of Marshall Ave. SE, near the Eastern and Hall intersection. Police said the people who live in those homes were extremely cooperative and consented to having their homes searched.

Officers didn't find Gibbs, though.

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Friday, December 11th, 2015, 12:06pm

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Michigan Supreme Court wants to hear more about a dispute between a Grand Rapids church and its former pastor.

The Rev. Arthur Pearson Sr. says he was illegally removed at Pilgrim's Rest Baptist Church in 2012. He sued the church, but two courts say Pearson's contract claim can't be heard.

Pearson says church leaders removed him amid financial questions, although the congregation supported him. In April, the state appeals court said it would be improper for courts to intervene in religious matters.

But in an order released Thursday, the Supreme Court says it will hear arguments and decide whether to accept an appeal or take other action.

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Sunday, December 6th, 2015, 12:13pm

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WZZM) -- A man suffered a life-threatening gunshot wound to the chest at the Marathon gas station on Franklin Street SW, located just west of U.S. 131.

Police at the scene said the man, aged in his late teens to early 20s, was in some sort of altercation with another individual on the sidewalk. The other person then shot the victim.

The shooting happened just after 2 p.m. Saturday.

A nurse was driving nearby the gas station when she noticed what had just happened and tended to the man, police said. He was transported to an area hospital for treatment.

The suspect is described as a white or Hispanic male, about 40-50 years old. He has a husky build with grey hair and was last seen wearing a baseball hat, blue flannel shirt and jeans. He was seen driving a white Ford Explorer as he fled west on Franklin Street.

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Saturday, December 5th, 2015, 3:19pm

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WZZM) -- Police identified the man killed in a house fire last month as Devin Lomax-Dagley, according to a news release.

Lomax-Dailey, 20, was found on the first floor of a burned home on Sunday, Nov. 22, in the 1400 block of Madison Avenue SE as firefighters worked to clear the building after a fire. The cause of death was determined as smoke inhalation.

Dental records were used to make the identification, police said.

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