A 42-year-old Cedar Rapids man will be charged Thursday for the 2007 cold case murder of Dennis First, 64. The two men lived in Hawthorne Hills Apartments in southwest Cedar Rapids in 2007. First was beaten and fatally stabbed.
A Cedar Rapid man and his wife had a previous run in with Devonna Walker in December and he should have known using a racial slur would provoke a violent response.
The Iowa Attorney General’s Office has asked the Iowa Supreme Court to review an appeals court decision that overturned a Marion man’s second-degree murder conviction for fatally stabbing Chris Bagley in 2018.
A Cedar Rapids man faces charges he bashed his brother in the head with a cigarette roller after the other brother stabbed him with a box cutter. One brother’s injuries left a blood trail outside the Linn County Courthouse and Jail.
Two adults were found dead Tuesday morning after deputies responded to reports of a shooting at a home on Jordans Grove Road, northeast of Marion
A man was arrested Monday and charged with voluntary manslaughter and disorderly conduct in relation to the fatal stabbing of Devonna Walker, 29, on Jan. 2, according to a news release from Linn County Attorney’s Office.
Ethan Orton pleaded to two charges of first-degree murder, just before his trial was to start Tuesday. He admitted to stabbing parents with a knife and then grabbing an ax and killing his mother who was still alive in 2021. He faces two life sentences.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested last week in relation to a shots fired incident that happened in August, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
A man from Mystic, Iowa was arrested in Cedar Rapids Friday on charges that he held his girlfriend and their infant son captive in a room with a knife.
Iowa City Police are investigating a shots fired incident that occurred Sunday morning at 118 S. Clinton St, according to a news release from the police department.
Trial is reset to April for one Fairfield teen accused of beating their Spanish teacher with a baseball bat in 2021. The trial is expected to last 10 days.
Police have identified the 16-year-old who was shot and killed last Saturday in northwest Cedar Rapids as Michael Alexander McCune of Cedar Rapids.
A prosecutor plans to ask a judge to stack sentences for a Chicago man who made nasty comments to a deputy after he was convicted. If the sentences are stacked for Stanley Donahue, he faces 107 years in prison for robbing a Casey’s and shooting the deputy.
One person was injured Wednesday evening in a shooting in the 1500 block of 3rd Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
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