Cedar Rapids man gets 12-year prison sentence on firearm charges

CEDAR RAPIDS - A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for shooting out the passenger side window of an acquaintance's SUV on Edgewood Road NE in March.

Keith M. Luter, 47, pleaded guilty in Linn County District Court to intimidation with a weapon, possession of firearms as a felon and carrying weapons in July.

Luter must serve a mandatory minimum of five years as part of his sentence because he used a gun in the offense.

Luter fired shots at an SUV driven by Tobein Newsom but he wasn't injured, according to a police report. A few minutes after the shooting, Newsom called police and provided them a description and license plate number of Luter's SUV.

Officers spotted Luter's vehicle at 15th Street and First Avenue E and he led police on a short pursuit that ended when Luter pulled into a driveway on Ozark Street NE.

Luter has been previously convicted of domestic abuse in 2011 and has a 1995 federal conviction for firearms and drugs.