VICKSBURG, Mich. (WOOD) — It has been more than 34 years since Erik Cross’ body was found along the side of the road in rural Kalamazoo County. Still, no one has been charged in his death.
Last autumn, in one of his last acts before retiring, then-Undersheriff Paul Matyas requested arrest warrants for murder for five suspects connected to Cross’ death. It gave hope to Cross’ family, but that hope faded as days turned into weeks and weeks into months and still no charges were actually filed.
“The last six months have been very frustrating, because we had our hopes raised in September and October of last year because when we heard that the sheriff’s department was requesting five warrants on open murder, then we assumed that the prosecutor’s office would grant the requests,” Jacqueline Mitchell, Cross’ sister, said Tuesday.
But Mitchell said she has not heard anything from Kalamazoo Prosecuting Attorney Jeff Getting about the case.
Getting told 24 Hour News 8 he would not comment on an ongoing investigation.
Mitchell, meanwhile, has had enough. She announced Tuesday she’s asking Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette to take the case and prosecute the five people allegedly involved in Cross’ death.
“We’re going to find justice for (Erik),” Mitchell said. “I think it gives hope to me, to Erik and to other teenagers who might also feel like he felt that night, which was alone, bullied, tortured and killed.”
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