Articles Tagged: Murder

A North Liberty man faces life in prison without parole after being found guilty of helping his girlfriend suffocate her stepmother with a pillow last year.

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The Snapchat video of a North Liberty man, on trial this week for first-degree murder, and his girlfriend saying “we killed” her stepmother in July 2022, was played for the jury Thursday in Benton County District Court in Vinton.

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A prosecutor says motive for North Liberty man helping his girlfriend kill her stepmother in 2022 was money. They also left behind evidence of Snapchat video about suffocating her with a pillow.

Damontie Haggstrom-Wells, 20, already in prison on a burglary conviction, now faces a murder charge in the May 2020 fatal shooting of Daniel Spangler.

Jacovan Bush, formerly of Fairfax, was convicted of lesser charges in the 2008 fatal shooting of a 19-year-old in Cedar Rapids during a fight between rival groups. He was convicted and sentenced last week for a fatal home invasion in Arkansas.

The Iowa Supreme Court affirmed a Manchester man’s murder conviction of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko, who was fatally stabbed in her car parked outside Westdale Mall in 1979. The court ruled Jerry Burns voluntarily left his DNA on a drinking straw police found in the trash of a restaurant. No warrant was needed.

A Cedar Rapids man arrested Wednesday on murder charges started a verbal fight with the victim and punched him before fatally shooting him at a Marion bar earlier this month, according to a criminal complaint.

A man was arrested Wednesday on a charge of first-degree murder in relation to a fatal shooting at a Marion bar on St. Patrick’s Day, according to a news release from the Marion Police Department.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Thursday night on charges that he robbed the Kentucky Fried Chicken at 1334 Edgewood Rd SW Cedar Rapids, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department. The man also had an outstanding warrant for aggravated assault from Shelby County, Tennessee.

Two teenagers face a first-degree murder charge, accused in the February fatal shooting of Michael McCune, 16, in northwest Cedar Rapids

A Cedar Rapids man pleaded to lesser charges for fatally shooting his girlfriend and another man last April in the Taboo Nightclub and Lounge. He faced up to 100 years on murder charges if convicted, but now only faces up to 30 years in prison.

Amended lawsuit filed last year by parents of Anamosa prison nurse says officials had been warned of lack of staff, safety issues, attempted escapes and nurses being held hostage before 2021 slayings.

Renan Machado says as an advocate he may be a “punching bag” some days but doesn’t take it personally. His job is to support family and friends of a loved one lost in a violent crime.