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GRPD investing shooting fatality on city’s southwest side

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The Grand Rapids Police Department is investigating a fatal shooting on the city’s southwest side.   They’re asking anyone with information to contact them.

Grand Rapids police says around 3:20 pm Wednesday afternoon, officers were called to the area of Commerce Ave SW and Goodrich Street SW on reports of the sound of gunfire.

Police says officers located a victim which was an adult female, in the 300 block of Commerce Ave SW. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The investigation by the Major Case Team is ongoing.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Grand Rapids Police Department or Silent Observer. Detectives can be reached at (616) 456-3380 or tips can be sent anonymously through Silent Observer at (616) 774-2345/ www.silentobserver.org.

"Grand Rapids Police just released additional information about the fatal shooting on the city's southwest side.

Following an autopsy by the Kent County Medical Examiner, the death has been ruled a homicide. The victim has been identified as 22 year old Leah Marie Gomez.

There was a child in the car at the time of the shooting and police say that child is unharmed.

Grand Rapids Police have identified Luis Fabian Bernal-Sosa as a person of interest. The 27 year old goes by the name of "Fabian". He is considered armed and dangerous. There is a warrant out for his arrest. Police are now also asking for the community's help identifying two people who may have witnessed the homicide.

Again, police are asking for anyone with information to call police"

Jennifer is an award winning broadcast news journalist with more than two decades of professional television news experience including the nation's fifth largest news market. She's worked as both news reporter and news anchor for television and radio in markets from Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo all the way to San Francisco, California.
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