Third person arrested following December assault in Iowa City Ped Mall

A man has been arrested in connection with an assault that happened in the Iowa City Pedestrian Mall in December. The Iowa City Police Department has sought the public’s help identifying people of interest in the case since December, and they asked the public for help again after two people were arrested in January.

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Jared Reed, 36, of Crawfordsville, was arrested and faces charges of willful injury and participating in a riot, according to a news release from the Iowa City Police Department.

Two other people — Ryan Maschmann, 22, and Landan Provino, 21, both of Wayland — were arrested on the same charges in January.

According to criminal complaints, Reed, Maschmann and Provino had an altercation with someone in the Ped Mall just past midnight Dec. 14, 2024, and then followed and attacked that person.

One person held the victim’s hands behind their back while another person hit the victim in the face. Once the victim fell to the ground, all three attackers punched, kicked and stomped on the victim until the victim lost consciousness, the complaints state.

The victim had several injuries, including a broken nose, a broken finger, lacerations to the ear and lip requiring stitches, bruising and injuries to the face, abrasions to the elbow and knee and laceration to the back of the head, according to complaints.

The Iowa City Police Department issued a news release about the assault Jan. 7, asking the public to help identify three people of interest. Warrants were issued Jan. 16 for Maschmann and Provino and they both were arrested Jan. 17.

At the time of the first two arrests, police released a photo of a man and asked the public for help identifying another person of interest.

According to a news release from the police department, Reed’s arrest “concludes the investigation into the Dec. 14 assault.”

Emily Andersen of The Gazette contributed to this report.