Johnathan Lee Whitlatch, 33, of Boone, pulled up in a pickup truck next to 22-year-old Eden Montang, 21-year-old Vivian Flores and another woman just before 7 p.m. Thursday outside Cornerstone Church on the outskirts of Ames and began shooting with a 9 mm handgun. Both victims were Iowa State students, authorities say.
The alleged victims were two 15-year-old girls, authorities said.
A woman was arrested Monday as a getaway driver in a shooting in April near the Cedar Rapids Hy-Vee. Bullets struck the grocery store.
A gunman carrying a rifle and a handgun killed four people Wednesday at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus, police said, the latest in a series of deadly mass shootings across the country in recent weeks.
Lawyers for Willard Noble Chaiden Miller, 16, filed a request last month for a change of venue. Prosecutors did not object.
A federal judge Wednesday sentenced a northern Iowa father and son to prison for their participation in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Police said they received a report just after 5 p.m. about gunshots being fired in the 1500 block of Fourth Avenue SE.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested on Friday on a charge of first-degree burglary.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department is asking the public for help identifying two people who the department says were present during a mass shooting at a downtown Cedar Rapids nightclub in April.
A Georgia man, who punched a TSA officer after he was stopped at The Eastern Iowa Airport security checkpoint for concealing marijuana and nearly $38,000 cash in his luggage, was sentenced to two months in federal prison.
Two Iowans are suing the state over gender-based restrictions to serve on the State Judicial Nominating Commission.
A Jones County woman propelled across a highway from a mailbox pipe bomb recalls the trauma 20 years later. Luke Helder, a Wisconsin college student charged with planting the bombs in five states in 2002, remains incompetent to stand trial and committed to a federal mental facility.
Second man dies from injuries
Cedar Rapids Police Chief Wayne Jerman was honored Thursday by the Iowa Police Chiefs’ Association as the Law Enforcement Executive of the Year.
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