by: WOODTV.com staff
PHOTO: A Feb. 13, 2020, mug shot of Eric Alvarez from the Kent County jail.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Prosectors say a man who seriously injured a woman with his car in a road rage incident in Walker has entered a plea.
Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker said that Eric Alvarez pleaded no contest to assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder, A count of failure to stop at the scene of a crash was expected to be dismissed.
The Kent County prosecutors office says the charges are linked to a Feb. 13 road rage incident and fight at the Starbucks on Alpine Avenue north of I-96.
The family of the injured woman, Samantha Sutherlin, say she sustained a serious brain injury but survived.