A man who had two violent encounters with Grand Rapids police, including one in which an officer shot him, pleaded guilty but mentally ill in both cases in court Thursday.
20-year-old Nodin Chervenka of Grand Rapids had his criminal cases delayed for months as he underwent psychiatric exams, as his defense attorney argued that Chervenka was criminally insane.
In December 2023, he charged at Grand Rapids police officers with a box cutter in an alley near Lyon Street and Union Avenue NE. Police shot and injured him; and only three weeks later he was arrested after assaulting a man in a wheelchair.
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