Hope Latrese Cutts, 43, was shot to death inside a home on Cass Avenue SE in Grand Rapids on Christmas Eve 2021. The Kent County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the chest wound a homicide.

Grand Rapids Police investigators identified 33-year-old Dequan Keuonte Nelson as a suspect and said Nelson and Cutts were known to one another. Nelson was arrested and charged with open murder and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony; a judge ordered him held without bond.

If anyone knew Hope, saw her on December 24, 2021, or has information about what happened at the Cass Avenue home, please come forward.