German Antonio Rodriguez-Duarte, 34, was found dead from a gunshot wound in the early morning of April 18, 2015, lying between houses in the 500 block of Hall Street SW near Caufield Avenue in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene. Initial investigators had difficulty locating next of kin and later identified him as a Honduran citizen who was supporting his parents in La Ceiba.

Months later, detectives developed a primary suspect. In December 2015 authorities named 30-year-old Demario Antwan Chandler as the suspected shooter and the Kent County Prosecutor’s Office issued a four-count felony warrant charging him with open murder, felony firearm, possession of a firearm by a felon, and a fourth-offense habitual offender notice. Chandler was already incarcerated at Cooper Street Correctional Facility in Jackson on unrelated weapons charges and arrangements were made to transport him to Grand Rapids for arraignment on the new charges.

Are there readers who knew German or who have any information about what happened that night on Hall Street SW?