A family gathering in Grand Rapids turned fatal on November 27, 2016, when 35-year-old Gregory Lee Rogers suffered a gunshot wound at a home near Bridge Street and Straight Avenue NW and died. Police initially treated the death as a possible suicide, but investigators later shifted the inquiry toward homicide as they examined the evidence.

In March 2017 authorities arrested Cavari Jamoul Brown, identified as Rogers’s nephew, and charged him with open murder, felony firearm, being a habitual offender, and a second offense notice. At trial the defense argued Rogers accidentally shot himself in the leg and bled to death, while prosecutors presented a case of deliberate violence. After six hours of deliberation over two days, the jury acquitted Brown of murder but convicted him on perjury plus drug and weapons charges.

Does anyone have information about Gregory Rogers’s last hours or the November 27, 2016 gathering that could help clarify what happened?