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Attorneys for former officer Christopher Schurr are asking the Michigan Supreme Court to consider an appeal to the decision to send Schurr to trial.
Two years after a then-Grand Rapids police officer shot and killed Patrick Lyoya, there is no scheduled date for a murder trial.
Christopher Schurr is charged with shooting Patrick Lyoya, a Congolese immigrant, in the back of the head after an April 2022 traffic stop.
Christopher Schurr's second-degree murder charge stems from a morning traffic stop that ended with him shooting Lyoya in his head.
The former police officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyoya, a Black man from Michigan, can stand trial for murder, an appeals court ruled Thursday.