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A teenager stabbed his father to death — and used an ax to kill his mother — in their northeast Cedar Rapids home in order to “take charge of his life,” authorities said Thursday.

A judge will set another hearing on a new trial for Drew Blahnik because a witness couldn’t be at Tuesday’s hearing.

Drew Blahnik, who was convicted of killing Chris Bagley, will wait to be sentenced — the judge will first rule on defense’s motion for new trial based on several legal issues.

Linn County prosecutors can use a teen suspect’s interview with police at trial, a district court judge ruled Friday. He said the 16-year-old voluntarily talked to police, and they didn’t have to notify his parents because he was a murder suspect in the June 2020 fatal shooting of Malik Sheets.

A Cedar Rapids man who fatally shot Wayne Jones in 2019 over an argument about cigarettes faces up to 30 years in prison. He pleaded to voluntary manslaughter and other charges this week.

Parole board says Marion man convicted at 17 for robbing and killing a pizza delivery driver can move to minimum security prison. David Keegan, now 37, is serving life with possibility of parole.

Trial for an Illinois man charged in Iowa City fatal shooting last year was canceled and a tentative plea hearing is set for December.

Retrial for Greg Davi,s accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in 2017, will not go forward next month. Defense is waiting on reports from experts and asked the court to dismiss the murder charge based on one expert, who says former girlfriend Carrie Davis was already dead when Davis stabbed her 26 times.

A plea deal in the works for Cedar Rapids man charged with fatally shooting another man over a pack of cigarettes. No details of possible plea but hearing is set for Oct. 8.

, 26, was found guilty of first-degree murder and going armed with intent of shooting a man outside of a convenience store in Cedar Rapids in 2019. The judge, in her Wednesday ruling, rejected Jenkins’ claim of self-defense.

Paul Hoff, already serving a federal prison term for drugs and firearms, pleaded to lying to authorities about the fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley on Dec. 14, 2018. Hoff pleaded guilty to obstruction of prosecution.

Michael A. Dutcher, 28, previously said he would plead the slayings were in self-defense or defense of others, but court filings this week show he plans to plead guilty to charges of first-degree murder, second-degree kidnapping and attempted murder.

A judge, following a bench trial in July, found an Iowa City man, who attempted to die by suicide by hitting another car in 2019, guilty of second-degree murder of a Texas man and other charges.

Live video plus tweets from reporter Trish Mehaffey, who is in Jones County District Court for the sentencing hearing of Thomas Woodard. Earlier this month, Woodard pleaded guilty on two counts of first-degree murder, and one count each of attempted murder and second-degree kidnapping for the March attacks on correctional officer Robert McFarland and prison nurse Lorena Schulte.

Trial for Cedar Rapids man accused of fatally beating his 71-year-old mother has been reset again to March 1.