Family has identified the woman who was killed in a shooting on Grand Rapids’ southwest side on Tuesday evening as 39-year-old Savanah Tierrablanca-Rubio.
Two people were killed and a suspect is in custody after a Grand Rapids shooting that sparked over a game of soccer at an elementary school, police said.
Around 6:37 p.m., officers with the Grand Rapids Police Department were called to Southwest Elementary School, in the area of Oakland Avenue SW and Rumsey Street, for a shooting. They arrived to find a 14-year-old boy and a woman in her 30s who had been shot.
Officers tried to save the teen’s life but he died at the scene. The woman was taken to the hospital, where she died, according to GRPD Interim Chief Joe Trigg.
He said it all started over a game of soccer.
“A bunch of kids were playing at the park here, and the suspect approached, asked to engage in a game of soccer. For whatever reason, he was turned away,” Trigg explained. “Did not like the fact that he was turned away so a verbal altercation started, which led to the suspect pulling out a firearm and shooting that juvenile. The adult female had came to the aid, verbally, of the juvenile victim so then she was targeted.”
The interim police chief said he believed the woman was related to the teen in some way, but he could not confirm how.
VIDEO below:
