Articles Tagged: attempted murder

He’s accused of pouring lighter fluid under his ex-girlfriend’s apartment door and igniting a blaze, trapping his ex, her boyfriend and three children inside. They escaped by going on the balcony.

A man injured in a shooting in Cedar Rapids on Oct. 9 was painting his truck when he was shot in the back by a teenager he didn’t know, according to a criminal complaint.

A Cedar Rapids teenager was arrested Thursday in relation to a shooting that happened on Oct. 9.

Police said Joshua T. Barnhart, 31, followed a man from Casey’s on 32nd Street NE in Cedar Rapids to Midland Concrete in Hiawatha, where the man works.

A Cedar Rapids man who’s accused of trying to kill his wife is competent to stand trial, a judge ruled on Monday. The court proceedings had been suspended since last year.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Saturday on charges that he broke into a house and attempted to kill a man who his ex-girlfriend was in bed with.

A Cedar Rapids man who was shot by police officers on July 30 was released from the hospital and booked into the Linn County Correctional Center on Wednesday.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Wednesday on a warrant for a attempted murder after he led police on a foot chase. The man is accused of attempting to kill his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend by hitting him multiple times in the head with a baseball bat.

A Hiawatha man was arrested Monday on several charges, including attempted murder, after police say he shot twice into the car of a woman he shares a 5-year-old son with. The woman and the boy, who were in the car at the time, were not injured.

Johnnie Osborne, 28, avoided a possible life sentence Thursday by pleading guilty to lesser charges for killing his pregnant girlfriend and causing the death of her unborn child nearly two years ago.

A Cedar Rapids man who pleaded guilty in 2021 to a 2020 robbery at a liquor store has now been charged with attempted murder in relation to a shooting that took place 30 minutes before the robbery.

Police arrest man in Sunday’s home invasion, where another man was shot in the leg. He faces attempted murder, first-degree burglary and other charges.

The criminal complaint said her boyfriend shot the man in his torso during a drug deal

Chicago man charged with shooting deputy after robbing Coggon convenience story asks court to move trial because of pretrial publicity and sever a charge to avoid prejudice because he is a felon.

Prosecutors said Jayme Powell ran over Richard Polak, of Omaha, while he rode his motorcycle on Interstate 29 near Whiting, Iowa, on Dec. 27, 2020, after the two had a fight earlier that night in Sioux City.