On May 5, 2017, 23-year-old DAndre Terrell Dean Bullis Sr., a Wyoming, Michigan resident and father of two, was shot and killed outside a hair salon on Grandville Avenue SW in Grand Rapids. Bullis was with his cousin, Manuel Villarreal, when several shots were fired; Bullis was struck in the head and Villarreal, then 26, was wounded in the leg and survived.
Police arrested 22-year-old Andy Gonzalez a day after the shooting; three people were eventually arrested in connection with the double shooting. Gonzalez was charged with Bullis’s murder and the attempted murder of Villarreal. At trial in Kent County Circuit Court prosecutors sought first-degree murder, but the jury convicted Gonzalez of second-degree murder and attempted murder.
The judge initially imposed consecutive and concurrent terms amounting to 65½ to 100 years for the murder conviction, concurrent 35 to 100 years for attempted murder, and a mandatory two years for using a firearm during a felony. That sentence was later vacated on appeal because the judge’s sentencing had been influenced by Gonzalez’s decision to go to trial; convictions were upheld and the case was sent back for resentencing before a new judge.
If anyone knew Bullis, his movements that day, or has information about what happened on May 5, 2017, please come forward.