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Live Coverage: Defense begins its case in Dimione Walker murder trial, Day 3
Nov. 16, 2022 8:45 am
CEDAR RAPIDS — The defense begins its case Wednesday in the first-degree murder trial of Dimione Walker, who is charged with killing a Cedar Rapids man April 10 inside the Taboo Nightclub & Lounge.
The prosecution rested Tuesday following testimony about the autopsy. The trial may wrap up Thursday.
Walker, 29, of Coralville, is accused of fatally shooting Michael Valentine, 25, at the downtown Cedar Rapids club. Another man, Timothy Rush, 32, of Cedar Rapids, is charged with killing Nicole Owens, 35, and Marvin L. Cox, 31. Ten people were also injured in the shooting.
Walker is charged with first-degree murder, going armed with intent and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Follow Gazette Reporter Trish Mehaffey’s live coverage from the courtroom.
Comments: (319) 398-8318; trish.mehaffey@thegazette.com
Defense attorney Sarah Hradek (left) talks to her co-counsel Quint Meyerdirk during a hearing for their client Dimione Walker in the Linn County Courthouse in Cedar Rapids on Oct. 31, 2022. Walker is one of two men arrested in the shooting in the Taboo Nightclub and Lounge on April 10, 2022, that killed three people and injured 10. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
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