Five people sustained what are believed to be minor injuries after a man intentionally drove into them following a dispute Friday night in Iowa City.
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Five people sustained what are believed to be minor injuries after a man intentionally drove into them following a dispute Friday night in Iowa City.
In Andrew Shaw’s first-degree murder trial Friday, jurors heard details of the 17 stab wounds that damaged Chris Bagley’s airway, slashed his jugular vein and penetrated his heart, lung and other organs. In other testimony, two former inmates said Shaw made comments to them about paying someone to kill Bagley in 2018.
According to a report presented to the Johnson County Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee this week, a joint law enforcement facility shared by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office and the Iowa City Police Department could cost around $106 million.
Andrew Shaw, during a police interview, denied hiring two men to kill Chris Bagley in 2018. He told investigators he wanted someone to beat Bagley up but never asked Drew Wagner or Johnny Blahnik Church to do it.
Paul Hoff’s account of the fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley in December 2018 differed from that told by Drew Wagner, who testified earlier this week in the first-degree murder trial of Andrew Shaw, who’s accused of hiring two men to kill Bagley.
Drew Wagner, testifying in the Andrew Shaw murder trial, said he didn’t give police investigators all the details in the fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley in 2018 because he was scared. Testimony continued Wednesday in Cedar Rapids.
A juvenile male was taken into custody after police recovered a gun at the scene of the shooting behind a shopping center around 6:20 p.m. Monday night.
A Cedar Rapids man has been arrested in connection with a Waterloo shooting that injured two people in late July.
A Shellsburg man, set to start trial today in Johnson County for helping his lover kill her husband in June of 2021, unexpectedly pleaded guilty and faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Police say a St. Louis man arrived at a pre-determined meeting place in Iowa City Monday afternoon where he was taken into custody.
ID show “911 Did The Killer Call?” focuses Tuesday on the Eastern Iowa murder of a Marengo man who was fatally assaulted by his girlfriend, her son and his friend in July 2009.
Drew Wagner testified Monday he didn’t know Johnny Blahnik Church was serious about killing Chris Bagley in 2018, but he admitted he used a wrestling hold on Bagley while Blahnik Church fatally stabbed him. Andrew Shaw, Wagner said, then paid Blahnik Church cash, drugs and an SUV for the killing.
Aaron T. Rich, 22, had stolen a gun from southwest side store on Aug. 5 shortly before leading police on a chase in Cedar Rapids, police said. The chase ended with Rich being shot following a pursuit, in which he allegedly pointed a gun at officers.
A Cedar Rapids man, already convicted in the fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley in 2018, testified in court Friday that Bagley and Andrew Shaw were friends until Bagley started robbing, extorting him. Shaw is on trial for first-degree murder and other charges related to Bagley’s murder.
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