Photo: Christopher Demond Meadows Jr., Genesee County Sheriff’s Office
FLINT – Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said a jury on Friday, March 14 found a Flint man guilty on all counts related to a 2019 shooting that left one person dead and two others critically injured.
Christopher Demond Meadows Jr., 32, is convicted of fifteen felonies including first-degree murder after shooting a gun from a moving vehicle at another vehicle and striking three individuals with multiple rounds of gunfire. One of the victims, 26-year-old Wanda Garner of Flint, died and two other passengers were critically wounded.
According to testimony at trial, on July 21, 2019, Meadows called a friend and asked him to pick him up so they could go looking for a man Meadows believed had shot and paralyzed another friend of his. As they were driving around just north of downtown Flint, near Saginaw Street and Avenue A, they spotted a white Dodge Charger that Meadows mistakenly thought carried his target as a passenger. He then loaded his mini draco AK-47 pistol and fired a barrage of bullets at the Charger striking all three passengers in the car.
This was the third trial of the incident. The first trial resulted in a hung jury and the second trial resulted in a conviction as charged but an appellate court concluded there was an error in the trial which forced the case to be retried for the third time.
“Third time’s a charm and, in the end, justice prevailed,” said Leyton after the verdict was read.
He added: “We were bound and determined to see this case through for Wanda Garner and her surviving loved ones and the two other victims in this case. With revenge in his mind, Christopher Meadows set out in a fury that night with the deliberate and premeditated intent to unlawfully kill another human being and he did just that.”
Prosecutor Leyton commended the Flint Police Department and Michigan State Police for their work on the investigation, as well as Assistant Prosecutor Sam Fleet and the entire team that worked so hard to see this case through to a successful prosecution.
Meadows faces mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole when he is sentenced on April 14.
