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GRPD: Person of interest in downtown shooting taken into custody near Chicago

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Posted at 7:17 PM, Jun 09, 2023
and last updated 2023-06-09 19:17:43-04

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Police Department said Friday evening that Luis Fabian Bernal-Sosa was taken into custody in the Chicago metropolitan area.

Bernal-Sosa was named a person of interest in the shooting death of a mother in downtown Grand Rapids last month.

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The department says the local U.S. Marshals Service's Fugitive Task Force and U.S. Marshals Service's personnel in Cook County, Illinois helped make the arrest possible.

Police say Bernal-Sosa will be lodged in Illinois Friday evening.

No word yet on when he will be extradited to West Michigan.

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