13 things about Grand Rapids, Michigan cop Chris Schurr

Christopher Paul “Chris” Schurr is an American police officer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. 

Here's the murderer who executed Patrick Lyoya. His name is Chris Schurr. Here he is pictured with his wife. They got married in Kenya. https://t.co/pKrUWW1TxG pic.twitter.com/iVr76bKyUa

— The Homeless Menace (@PangsOfPain) April 15, 2022

BIOGRAPHY

Schurr is married to his high school sweetheart Brandey Lynn Bruin Schurr. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. He attended Corinth Reform, an evangelical church in Byron Center, Michigan.
2. His father worked at a trucking business while his mother worked as a legal assistant at a mortgage company.
3. When he was a teenager, his parents divorced and they shared custody of him and his younger sister.
4. He competed as a pole vaulter while attending Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan.
5. He was born in 1990.
6. In 2009, he graduated from Byron Center High School in Byron Center. 
7. In 2013, he and Brandey visited Kenya and he was one of the Daktronics–National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) men’s track and field scholar-athletes.
8. From 2013 to 2014, he trained at Grand Rapids Gymnastics in Grand Rapids.
9. He was named the Outstanding Performer at the 2014 Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Awards.
10. In 2015, he joined the Grand Rapids Police Department.
11. In 2020, he made $89,454 as a Grand Rapids Police Department officer.
12. In 2022, he was arrested for the shooting of Congolese refugee Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids.
13. In 2025, his second-degree murder trial started.

TIMELINE

Chris is a resident of Byron Center. Aside from Byron Center, he has lived in other parts of Michigan including Grand Rapids, Grandville, Jenison, Kentwood and Spring Lake.

2014

• In May 2014, he and Brandey got engaged, he earned a gold medal at the NAIA Outdoor National Track and Field Championships at the Mickey Miller Blackwell Stadium in Gulf Shores, Alabama, USA and he graduated from Siena Heights University with a bachelor’s degree in accounting with a minor in criminal justice.
• In July 2014, Pastor Odero Elisha hosted him and Brandey in Kawiti, Homa Bay, Kenya. The pastor officiated at their wedding there. The couple and others visited residents, played with orphans and built houses for widows in the village.

2022

• On April 4, 2022, he fatally shot Lyoya in Grand Rapids. The Grand Rapids Police Department placed him on paid leave and stripped him of police powers.
• On April 13, 2022, the Grand Rapids Police Department released footage of Lyoya’s fatal shooting without revealing his identity.
• On April 25, 2022, Grand Rapids Police Department chief Eric Winstrom confirmed that he was the cop who fatally shot Lyoya.
• On June 9, 2022, he was charged with one count of second-degree murder.
• On June 10, 2022, he appeared at a hearing via video conference from a jail in Calhoun County, Michigan before a judge, who set his bond at $100,000, and his lawyer Mark Dodge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.    

2025

• On April 28, 2025, Brandey accompanied him at the Kent County Courthouse in Grand Rapids where his second-degree murder trial started.