Articles Tagged: Homicide

A man who was arrested last week after barricading himself inside an Iowa church has been charged in an arrest warrant with killing his grandmother and great-grandmother in Omaha.

A second man has been arrested in relation to a shooting last week in a downtown Cedar Rapids nightclub.

A Wisconsin man accused of killing his girlfriend and trying to kill his teenage daughter in a double shooting in Milwaukee has been arrested after an hourslong standoff in northeastern Iowa.

Authorities in Tama County say a $17,000 reward is now being offered to help solve a deadly shooting in June.

The homicide case will be closed with no prosecution because suspect George Smith died in 2013 at the age of 94, police said.

Police say 44-year-old Nestor Lagunes Dominguez should be considered armed and dangerous. He is accused of shooting and killing Jose Florentino Ramirez Landin Sunday in the 4000 block of 21st Avenue SW.

Police said Jose Florentino Ramirez Landin suffered life-threatening gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Penny Galvin has led the Survivors’ Program, which helps families and friends who have lost loved ones to homicides and vehicular homicides, since 2009.

A teenage girl who took advanced classes and played on her high school basketball team — and dreamed of someday running her own business — was found dead this week with a bullet wound in a crashed car she had borrowed while visiting her older sister in Cedar Rapids, according to interviews and authorities.

Officers were called just before 6:30 a.m. to the Hawthorne Hills apartment complex — in the 2200 block of C Street SW — for reports of a single-vehicle wreck.

Authorities on Wednesday night identified three people found dead in the northern Iowa city of Algona on Monday as two young brothers who were shot to death and another person who killed himself.

On the second day of the murder trial, prosecutors used a partial confession and a surveillance video to build their case that Christhian Bahena Rivera, 26, stabbed and killed university of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, 20, in 2018.

Police said Frederick W. Rumble, 45, of Iowa City, was shot and killed.

Police said Tommy Curry thought he was meeting a woman he had been talking to for months. Instead, Curry was shot and killed.

IOWA CITY — The Wednesday shooting death of Tommy Curry in Iowa City is being investigated as a homicide, authorities …