At 78, double murderer is oldest in Kent County to seek chance at freedom

At 78, double murderer is oldest in Kent County to seek chance at freedom

WALKER, Mich. (WOOD) — Man had yet to land on the moon and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was still holding rallies when Gerald Gort, 53, and Jack McRoy, 17, headed to work for what would be their last shift. It was March 2, 1968, and Gort and McRoy were clerks at the Cavalier Service Station on Remembrance Road near Wilson Avenue in Walker. ‘Juvenile lifers’ get second, third chance at sentencing Nearly sixty years later, there’s an empty lot…