The Grand Rapids, Michigan, police officer who fatally shot 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya, a Black man, in the back of the head in April, has been charged with second-degree murder, the county prosecutor announced Thursday.

Christopher Schurr, the officer who killed Lyoya during a routine traffic stop on April 4, faces up to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Lyoya’s shocking killing, caught on police body camera, police dashboard camera, cellphone video, and a nearby doorbell camera, stirred national outrage. Weeks of protests in the majority-white city of Grand Rapids followed the release of the footage, demanding the Grand Rapids Police Department release the name of the officer responsible, and for charges to be brought against him.

 On April 4, footage shows Schurr pulling over Lyoya for having a license plate that did not match his vehicle and walking up to the driver’s side of the window. According to the footage, Lyoya steps out of his car against Schurr’s orders, and, after a brief exchange, runs away from Schurr. Schurr pursues him and tackles him to the ground in front of a nearby home, the videos show.

Schurr then demands Lyoya stop resisting as he straddles him, the videos show. As he sits on top of Lyoya, Schurr tries to tase him. After a minute and a half of wrestling on the ground, the officer orders Lyoya to stop reaching for his taser, before pulling out his gun and firing a single shot to the back of his head.

Schurr, a seven-year veteran of the department, was placed on paid leave while Michigan State Police carried out an investigation into Lyoya’s death. The department refrained from naming Schurr at the time, telling the public it doesn’t typically release the names of people who have not been charged with a crime or arrested. 

After weeks of protest, however, Chief Eric Winstrom confirmed Schurr was responsible for Lyoya’s death, citing the decision to release the cop’s name “in the interest of transparency.”

Schurr, 31, is a Grand Rapids native who graduated from the police academy in 2015. He was an athlete at Byron Center High School before heading off to Siena Heights University.

At the time, Grand Rapids residents told VICE News they had been bracing for this kind of deadly police violence for years—but their requests for reform were largely ignored.

“I remember telling people at the time, ‘If they don’t do something about this, somebody’s gonna die,’” Grand Rapids resident and cousin of Breonna Taylor said of GRPD April. “They’ve been like cowboys, reckless in the way they do their job.”

Lyoya was a refugee who had come to the U.S. fleeing violence in his native Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2014. More than 8,000 Congolese immigrants emigrated to the U.S. over the past decade and now call the small Michigan city home. Lyoya was one of six children and was a father of two.