Witness who saw Kazius Childress fatally shoot Cordal Lewis in 2022 admitted that he lied several times to police because he didn’t want to be involved, fearing for himself and family.
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Witness who saw Kazius Childress fatally shoot Cordal Lewis in 2022 admitted that he lied several times to police because he didn’t want to be involved, fearing for himself and family.
The city of Marion has earned $136,480 from traffic camera citations since cameras were installed at two intersections in the city last summer, but that money only comes from about 37 percent of the citations that have been issued. The rest had not yet been paid, as of Dec. 31.
Kazius Childress fired 11 times as 19-year-old Cordal Lewis tried to run away from him, a a prosecutor said during her opening Wednesday. Childress is on trial this week for first-degree murder and going armed with intent. Childress and others robbed Lewis and then Childress shot him in “cold blood.”
False threats were reported at Marion High School and other eastern Iowa schools Wednesday, on the same day that Iowa House lawmakers advanced a bill that would make it a felony to make a false report of a serious crime to law enforcement.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department is asking for help finding a suspect in an armed bank robbery earlier this month.
Michael Thomas Lang said he should have been able to claim he acted in self-defense when he shot Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Jim Smith in the chest with a shotgun in April 2021.
A new lawsuit was filed this week by the mother of Lorena Schulte, nurse killed by inmates at Anamosa prison in 2021. The first petition was dismissed by court because of legal issues arising from estate being mistakenly closed after suit was filed.
The city of Cedar Rapids saw a noticeable decrease in shots-fired incidents and other violent crime in 2023. Police attribute the decrease to some arrests made early in the year and the city’s Group Violence Intervention Program.
Funeral held for sixth grader known as ‘Smiley’a week after Perry shooting.
An Iowa City man, initially charged in state court, has now been indicted in federal court for sending threatening emails to prosecutors and others. He also send threatening messages to county officials in Oregon, an Iowa radio station and President Biden, according to court documents.
A Fayette County woman was arrested Tuesday on charges that she drove while drunk with a child in the car and lost control, crashing into a ditch, according to the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office.
The Iowa Board of Parole on Tuesday granted work release to a man who fatally shot one man and seriously injured two others in August 2017 on Iowa City’s Ped Mall.
The Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation has released the names of five Cedar Rapids police officers who were involved in a shooting on Jan. 1.
The federal appeals court ruled on two lawsuits, while a third remains pending; animal welfare advocates said they are confident they will win on appeal to the Supreme Court
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