Suspects jailed, fatal shooting at ATM caught on surveillance cameras

63rd District Judge Sara Smolenski speaks to 22-year-old Rishy Manning from Grand Rapids, who is charged with murder in the death of Joseph Wilder during an arraigned at the 63rd District Court in Grand Rapids on Friday, May 27, 2022. (Daniel Shular | MLive.com)

Joseph Wilder in a photo provided by his family

63rd District Judge Sara Smolenski speaks to Jaheim Hayes—Goree, 20, who is charged with murder in the death of Joseph Wilder during an arraigned at the 63rd District Court in Grand Rapids on Friday, May 27, 2022. (Daniel Shular | MLive.com)

Attorney Lesley Kranenberg, left, appears on screen with 20-year-old Jaheim Hayes—Goree from Grand Rapids, who is charged with murder in the death of Joseph Wilder during an arraigned at the 63rd District Court in Grand Rapids on Friday, May 27, 2022. (Daniel Shular | MLive.com)

Attorney Lesley Kranenberg, left, appears on screen with 22-year-old Rishy Manning from Grand Rapids, who is charged with murder in the death of Joseph Wilder during an arraigned at the 63rd District Court in Grand Rapids on Friday, May 27, 2022. (Daniel Shular | MLive.com)

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KENT COUNTY, MI – Two men are charged with felony murder in the fatal shooting of a man using a Byron Township ATM.

Jaheim Hayes-Goree, 20, and Rishy Manning, 22, were arraigned Friday, May 27, in the killing of Joseph Wilder, 50, a married father of three.

Based on the seriousness of the allegations, 63rd District Judge Sara Smolenski ordered the defendants held without bond.

“I’m specifically saying, you cannot be released,” she told Hayes-Goree, via a video link at Kent County Correctional Facility.

The defendants, both Grand Rapids residents, were arrested early Wednesday after crashing a stolen vehicle, which ended violent, overnight rampage, police said.

Hayes-Goree, who lived with his mother and a young sister, said he has not been able to contact his mother since his arrest. He said he was supposed to have started a factory job on Thursday.

Manning said he lived with his parents.

Both denied any involvement in the killing, an attorney said.

Both are charged with felony murder, which carries a penalty of life in prison without parole upon conviction, and conspiracy to commit armed robber, a life offense.

Wilder was shot while near an automated-teller machine at the Huntington Bank on South Division Avenue, near M-6. Police said he was driving away from robbers when he was shot.

A witness reported that someone had shot into Wilder’s vehicle. The witness heard two shots and saw “sparks” coming from the gun. Wilder’s pickup crossed the road and came to a stop against a fence.

He had suffered a gunshot wound to his head and died at the scene

Surveillance video at the bank showed Wilder arriving at the ATM around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. Moments later, a blue sport-utility vehicle pulled behind his pickup truck.

Fifteen seconds later, a man pointed a gun at Wilder from the passenger side. He had moved to the front of the vehicle toward the driver’s side when a second man showed up on the passenger side and pointed a gun at Wilder, according to a probable-cause affidavit filed by Kent County sheriff’s detectives.

Wilder put his truck in drive as the first man shot at him and ran back to his vehicle, the affidavit said.

The suspects fled south on South Division.

“Throughout this investigation, investigators were monitoring radio traffic of area agencies and learned of several incidents which were occurring throughout the Kent County area,” the affidavit said.

The alleged crime spree began around 9:40 p.m. Tuesday, with shots fired during a robbery at a business on Leonard Street NW, near Seward Avenue. No one was injured.

An hour later, a witness reported shots fired at Huntington Bank. Sheriff’s deputies found Wilder deceased.

Grand Rapids police, who responded to the first holdup, took a report of an Audi sport-utility vehicle being stolen from South Division Avenue. The occupants of a blue Chevrolet Equinox stolen the Audi, police said.

Around 1:15 a.m., the Audi was used in a robbery on Ann Street in Grand Rapids and at a gas station on 28th Street SE and East Paris Avenue in Kentwood.

Grand Rapids police spotted the Audi around 2:15 a.m. and began to chase. When the pursuit crossed into Walker, police there took over the pursuit until the Audi crashed at Alpine Avenue NW and Four Mile Road.

The suspects fled on foot but were captured by police from multiple agencies. They were wearing clothing that matched clothing of the suspects shown on surveillance video.

Police recovered a handgun inside the stolen Audi that crashed. Police also recovered a cellphone.

“Location data was observed from the cell phone download confirming that the cell phone was at the location of the homicide, at the time of the homicide, and that the device belonged to Manning,” the affidavit said.

Wilder was the father of three boys, with the youngest just starting high school. A truck driver, he was also choir director at Apostolic Faith Church for 20 years. He was a worship leader at church, too.

He loved to sing, his family said.

Timothy Wilder, the victim’s nephew, said the family has been devastated

“It’s such a tragic way he was taken from us.”

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