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Wyoming search warrants ends with possible witnesses to fatal GR shooting located

Wyoming search warrant
Wyoming search warrant
Wyoming search warrant
Wyoming search warrant
Posted at 3:43 PM, Jun 02, 2023
and last updated 2023-06-04 15:52:49-04

WYOMING, Mich. — Police executed a search warrant in Wyoming Friday afternoon.

Police from Grand Rapids and Wyoming responded to Johanna Avenue south of Burton Street.

Wyoming search warrant ends with possible witnesses to fatal GR shooting located

The Grand Rapids Police Department (GRPD) says the incident ended when police located two possible witnesses to the shooting death of 22-year-old Leah Gomez.

During the search, police also found a black Ford Ranger bearing a Bernal Landscape sticker. The vehicle is believed to have belonged to the person of interest in Gomez's killing.

“GRPD would like to thank the management team at Bernal Landscape,” says Chief Eric Winstrom. “The company is not related to the homicide, and they have been fully cooperative with investigators.”

Gomez was shot and killed in downtown Grand Rapids Wednesday, May 31. Her 1-year-old child was in the back seat of her car when the shooting occurred.

READ MORE: Family mourns loss of Leah Gomez, an 'amazing mother with a huge heart'

In the following days, Grand Rapids police named 27-year-old Luis Fabian Bernal-Sosa as a person of interest in Gomez's death.

READ MORE: Police name person of interest in downtown GR shooting death, considered 'armed and dangerous'

Investigators have not yet pinned down Bernal-Sosa's location, according to GRPD.

FOX 17 spoke with a neighbor who recounted Friday's events.

"I looked out the front and I saw that there was a special units vehicle parked on the drive in front of my neighbor's house," he says. "For the next two or so hours, I'd seen as several of their crew came out with guns, they had been through the microphone, telling whoever was in the house, 'Occupants at [address redacted], come out with your hands up.' ... I was just hoping everybody was okay. It's not every day SWAT shows up."

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