Articles Tagged: Murder

One Iowa City man was convicted by a jury and two others testified about the drug robbery that ended in the death of Kejuan Winters last year.

Drew Blahnik, convicted of killing Chris Bagley, will now go by the name of Johnny Blahnik Church. Court records will stay in his birth name.

Trial for a Cedar Rapids man charged in the fatal stabbing of a cabdriver in 2011 will now go forward after the U.S. Supreme Court denies review of an appeals decision. Trial is reset to May 20.

Jeremy Everett Goodale, the second of two 16-year-olds charged in the killing of Fairfield High School Spanish teacher Nohema Graber, wants his case moved to juvenile court. The prosecution has not yet filed a resistance to his request.

Trial reset to April 5, 2022, for Alexander Ken Jackson, a 21-year-old University of Iowa student charged with fatally shooting his parents and sister at their northeast Cedar Rapids home in June 2021.

Drew Blahnik’s sentencing is set for Dec. 17. He faces up to 57 years in prison.

Willard Chaiden Miller, one of the 16-year-olds charged with killing Fairfield High Spanish teacher Nohema Graber, wants his case moved to juvenile court. Prosecution argues because he is 16 and charged with murder, it’s excluded from juvenile jurisdiction.

A Cedar Rapids man, just before he was to be retried for fatally shooting Andrew Meeks in 2017, pleaded to lesser charges and was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison.

Jermaine Walker, 38, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for fatally shooting Wayne Jones over a pack of cigarettes argument in 2019.

Drew Blahnik, convicted of killing Chris Bagley in 2018, wants a new trial, claiming one of the jurors, a Marion bar manager, knew Bagley or Blahnik. Prosecutor says there’s no evidence, just an allegation of a bartender who didn’t totally recall what she said.

Trial for Cedar Rapids teen charged with stabbing parents with knife and ax is set for Feb. 8 in Linn County District Court.

Ethan Alexander Orton, the 17-year-old Cedar Rapids resident accused of killing both his parents on Oct. 14, has entered not guilty pleas to two counts of first-degree murder.

Two southeast Iowa teenagers charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the death of their high school Spanish teacher pleaded not guilty in arraignment documents filed Monday.

There are 21 pending murder cases in Linn, Johnson counties, mainly due to the pandemic. Prosecutors estimate it will take several years to reduce the entire backlog created in 2020 and this year.

Two Fairfield teens charged with killing a Spanish teacher ask a judge to lower their $1million bail to $100,000. Prosecution asks to double it to $2 million. The judge will make ruling next week.