A Grimes man faces what will be a life sentence for trying to kill three Cedar Rapids police officers during a standoff at The Chelsea Apartments in February. He pleaded to 3 charges of attempted murder and faces 50 years, which is mandatory because the victims were officers.
Also, lawmakers in the Iowa House voted Wednesday to expand legislation that would provide professional right-to-carry permits for judicial officers, members of the Attorney General’s Office and state lawmakers.
A Grimes man arrested Thursday in Cedar Rapids after an 11-hour standoff shot at Cedar Rapids police at least three times during the altercation, a criminal complaint filed Friday shows.
The episode began about 8 a.m. Sunday as a Buena Vista County Sheriff’s Office deputy stopped the driver of a pickup truck for speeding near Storm Lake. But the driver threatened police and sped off — going 98 mph in a 45 mph zone, court records show.
A teenager was injured Tuesday in an officer-involved shooting in Dubuque.
The estate of a man who was shot and killed by Eastern Iowa police after a high-speed chase in 2022 is now suing the officers involved.
When officers approached the driver to arrest him, he pulled out a handgun and began shooting at them, police Sgt. Paul Parizek said.
An Iowa City police officer was legally justified earlier this summer in shooting and injuring an armed man who was threatening suicide but refused more than a dozen orders to drop his gun, Johnson County Attorney Rachel Zimmerman Smith determined.
During a chase, the man's vehicle left the road and came to a stop. Within seconds officers reported that shots were fired and that one of them had been shot.
The shooting killed David Vanderhamm and injured his stepfather, John Coppes. A review by the Iowa Attorney General’s Office cleared the three Cedar Rapids officers involved in the shooting.
An Iowa City police officer has been put on paid administrative leave after an officer-involved shooting Monday that involved a suicidal subject.
Police and first responders were on the scene of a fatal Waterloo officer-involved shooting in which a man was killed and two officers were injured on Sunday.
Officials have released the names of three Cedar Rapids police officers who shot and killed a man who was armed and making threats on April 6.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety has released the name of the man killed in an officer-involved shooting in Saturday night in northeast Cedar Rapids.
When officers entered the residence, they encountered a male subject “armed with two knives that ran at the officers,” a news release from the Fort Dodge Police Department states.
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