A man from East Dubuque. Ill., who was shot and injured by a Delaware County deputy last week after authorities say he killed a Fareway employee in Monticello, had his first appearance in court Saturday over a video call from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics where he is being treated, according to Monticello police.
Articles Tagged: Murder
Crime & Courts Nov. 14, 2023 8:13 am823d ago
A man who was injured in a deadly shooting last month at an apartment complex’s parking lot was arrested Thursday and faces a first-degree murder charge over one of the two people killed.
Crime & Courts Nov. 8, 2023 7:17 pm829d ago
Doctors testified that Elsie Deason, who died less than a month later after being assaulted by her son, had bleeding in different areas of her brain and her condition was higher risk because she had been on blood thinners. Her son, George Deason, is on trial this week for fatally assaulting her in 2020.
Crime & Courts Oct. 28, 2023 7:57 pm840d ago
Court upholds Linn County jury verdict for Marion man who fatally stabbed Chris Bagley in 2018. The appeals courts decision is tossed and Johnny Blahnik Church, formerly known as Drew Blahnik will continuing serving his 57 year sentence.
Crime & Courts Oct. 20, 2023 1:52 pm848d ago
A Cedar Rapids man accused of fatally assaulting his mother in 2020 has waived a jury trial and will have a bench trial Nov. 7. The prosecution is also amending the murder charge against George Dreason from first-degree to second-degree murder.
Crime & Courts Oct. 17, 2023 2:37 pm851d ago
A Cedar Rapids man who was just discharged from his federal prison term for trafficking drugs is now charged with hiring two others to kill Chris Bagley in 2018. If convicted, he faces life in prison without parole.
Crime & Courts Oct. 13, 2023 2:23 pm855d ago
A Cedar Rapids man has been charged with murder in relation to the shooting death of another man Thursday night.
Crime & Courts Oct. 5, 2023 6:11 pm863d ago
Kiana McCune recounts hearing gunshots outside her apartment the day her 15-year-old son, Michael McCune, was fatally shot in a “targeted” attack on Feb. 18. in Cedar Rapids. She told a judge, during one of the teen’s juvenile adjudication hearing, that she “died that day with my son.”
Crime & Courts Oct. 5, 2023 5:55 pm863d ago
An Ohio man wanted in a fatal shooting that happened in an Ohio newspaper’s parking lot was arrested Thursday in Cedar Rapids.
Crime & Courts Oct. 6, 2023 8:45 am862d ago
A Cedar Rapids man who was found Tuesday on the side of Interstate 80 in Poweshiek County with a dead man in his car has now been charged with first-degree murder.
Crime & Courts Sep. 23, 2023 5:40 pm875d ago
An Iowa man who failed to show up for the guilty verdict at his murder trial has been found and taken into custody, state officials announced Saturday.
Crime & Courts Sep. 25, 2023 7:23 am873d ago
One of the teens accused of fatally shooting 16-year-old Michael Alexander McCune in Cedar Rapids in February is asking a judge to move his first-degree murder and a theft case to juvenile court, but his previous juvenile court officer said it wasn’t in the “best interest” of the teen or the community.
Crime & Courts Sep. 15, 2023 5:11 pm883d ago
Henry Earl Dinkins, 51, was found guilty of first-degree murder and kidnapping in the death of Breasia Terrell, who was missing for eight months before her remains were found in a pond.
Crime & Courts Sep. 15, 2023 10:18 am883d ago
Four teens accused of fatally shooting Michael McCune, 16, of Cedar Rapids, in February are moving through the juvenile and adult court justice system. One has pleaded guilty, one wants to go back to juvenile court and two have trials scheduled.
Crime & Courts Sep. 14, 2023 5:28 pm884d ago
An Iowa teenager was found guilty Thursday of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the deaths of two students at a Des Moines alternative education program earlier this year.

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