KENTWOOD, MI (WHTC) – Two men are awaiting convictions for allegedly shooting at an apartment complex in Kentwood last month. On May 21, former high school track star Marcus Johnson was at a liquor store on Breton Road when he was approached by 20-year-old Mukeh Sheku Kutubu, whom he knew from the neighborhood, according to a report from mlive.com.
Kutubu told Johnson that another young man, 21-year-old Anwar Bazi Munye was looking to fight Johnson to settle an argument that occurred between Munye’s younger brother and Johnson. Johnson’s mother, Teresa Underwood, then came to the liquor store to give Johnson a ride home where she and Johnson witnessed a man in a gray hoodie point a gun at the car. Underwood and Johnson fled the scene while the man shot the gun at the car.
The man in the gray hoodie was identified by Johnson to be Munye. Underwood said that she didn’t think to go to the police about the altercation and instead drove to an apartment complex a few blocks from the liquor store, where Johnson’s two young children were living.
Reports say that only a few minutes later, Munye was seen approaching the apartment and opened fire on the building. No one was injured in the shooting. The two suspects in the case, Munye and Kutubu, were booked into Kent County Jail a week after the incident and charged with shooting at an occupied building and two counts of assault.
Now, a month later, Munye’s attorney James Dimitriou is asking Judge William Kelly to have Munye’s $100,000 bond reduced, stating that his client was trying to be an upstanding citizen by attending Grand Valley State University and working at Pizza Hut before his arrest. Judge Kelly overturned Dimitriou’s appeal. Munye and Kutubu are facing up to ten years each for the crime.
-Caitlyn Burry
