The Iowa Department of Public Safety has released the name of the man killed in an officer-involved shooting in Saturday night in northeast Cedar Rapids.
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The incident unfolded just after 6:30 p.m. Saturday after a man -- identified by the Division of Criminal Investigation as a “suspect” -- asked for officers to respond to his house on 31st Street NE.
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