Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids Police Department

A suspect in early Sunday’s shooting in a downtown nightclub killed Nicole Owens, 35, and shot another man in the head, critically injuring him, a criminal complaint filed Tuesday shows.

A suspect in a shooting early Sunday inside a downtown nightclub that killed two people celebrating a mutual friends’s birthday was arrested Monday on a second-degree murder charge and other counts, police announced.

The shooting occurred at 1:27 a.m. at the Taboo Nightclub and Lounge, 415 Third St. SE. Police were on a routine patrol downtown at the time and were able to respond rapidly.

The officer, who was not identified, was not injured and the shooting was under investigation. Police said multiple shots were fired, and rounds hit the home, garage and a take-home squad car.

The board that provides oversight of local law enforcement has launched a public “Idea Wall.” Community members can respond to rotating questions during April and May to guide the board’s work.

A Cedar Rapids man who called 911 Saturday to report a woman's “heroin overdose” has been charged with murder after police found the woman with what appeared to be blunt force head trauma, according to a criminal complaint.

A girl who went missing Tuesday from Four Oaks has been found, according to police.

The woman was found in a jail cell Thursday morning by a corrections officer.

Two people were injured in shootings that happened less than two hours apart Monday night in Cedar Rapids.

A juvenile was injured Sunday evening after a shooting in the 1600 block of Seventh Avenue SE

The Joint Communications Agency dispatched every available police officer and firefighter, and police described the incident as Cedar Rapids’ largest-ever high-rise fire.

Zuena Rambo, 25, is accused of leaving her children home alone when she went to work.

A’alyiah and Salena Watkins have admired police officers since they were kids, and in February they made history as the first pair of Black sisters at the Cedar Rapids Police Department.

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.

Some residents of Geneva Tower moved back into their apartments Thursday after being displaced for more than a week because of a fire in the downtown Cedar Rapids apartment building.