Iowa DCI close to submitting report on Cedar Rapids officer-involved shooting

CEDAR RAPIDS - The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation is close to submitting its report on the March 29 officer-involved shooting in Cedar Rapids to the Linn County Attorney's Office.

'Our findings are being compiled and being put into report form and will be submitted to the county attorney,” DCI Special Agent-in-Charge Rick Rahn said Thursday.

Rahn said there is no timetable for when the report will be submitted to Linn County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden. He said the case needs to be sent to the DCI's transcription team, who will put the information into report form. The transcription team gets cases from all over the state, Rahn said.

'Of course, everybody wants their reports done first,” he said. 'There are only 24 hours in a day.”

The DCI has been investigating the officer-involved shooting of 27-year-old Kyle Orth since the incident occurred in the early morning hours of March 29.

Orth was shot by Officers Jeremy Depies and Brandon Tinta after, authorities have said, police spotted an orange 2015 BMW M4 driving recklessly and at a high rate of speed in the 1000 block of A Avenue NE. The driver went the wrong way down 12th Street NE toward H Avenue. The officers - who were in uniform and a marked car - pursued him.

Police said they caught up with Orth in an alley between Center Point Road and Daniels Street NE. At some point, he backed into a pole, damaging the BMW and injuring a female passenger, who was Orth's date for the evening.

Officers opened fire when they say Orth drove 'in a reckless manner” toward them. Multiple shots were fired.

Orth said he was hit three times - above his left knee, through his left bicep and in his left shoulder. Orth said the bullet to his shoulder grazed him, but the round that entered his leg is embedded and can't be removed. He was treated at the hospital and released without being charged.

Orth has still not been charged in the case. Rahn said the DCI does not make charging recommendations, and that decision will be made by Vander Sanden. He added the DCI does not set a deadline on completing investigations.

'You can never put a timeline on it,” Rahn said. 'Everything is unique and different. We never say it will be complete within a certain time frame.”